Parenthetical Girls

Zac Pennington’s Parenthetical Girls are more aware than most indie-rock bands that mystique can be as well-played as any Telecaster. Sucker-punching classic Beatles-esque melody with equal parts torque, texture, and terror, the group weaves tendrils of The Arcade Fire and The Dead Science (the Girls used to share two members with the latter) into Pennington’s quaking, sub-operatic falsetto. The band’s 2008 full-length, Entanglements, is an orchestral song-cycle of the most ambitious kind, and its five-part EP follow-up, Privilege, will eventually make up the fourth album, Mend And Make Do.

Updated 05/24/2011