Before The World Was Big

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AlbumJun 02 / 201510 songs, 24m 11s
Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock Indie Pop Bedroom Pop
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The indie-pop duo Girlpool's debut LP, Before the World Was Big, brims with a mysterious power, a charged and palpable sense of hope and awe. With it, Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker have created a quiet album of uncommon intensity.

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Girlpool's Before The World Was Big may bruise you, and you'll be all the better for it

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Girlpool became rising stars after their lo-fi single "Blah Blah Blah" was released as part of their self-titled EP. The…

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With a sourcebook as infinite as personal experience, Girlpool are an unstoppable force.

Emerging from the Los Angeles indie underground in 2014, Girlpool sounded like no other act, employing a deceptively simple formula to deliver their raw tales of teenage woe, joy, and confusion.

Anybody hoping for a radical lurch into complex, richly-textured progressive rock on the debut from LA duo Girlpool is going to be sorely disappointed.

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Although born and raised in Los Angeles, Girlpool's Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad recently made the move to Philadelphia, weaving their wa...

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Girlpool's existential two-chord nursery rhymes make even the sparsest Breeders record look like Pink Floyd.

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