Portland’s dramatic pop outfit Parenthetical Girls are in the midst of releasing Privilege–the band’s new full length–as a box set of five extremely limited 12″ EPs on their own Slender Means Society label. These EPs will be sold separately in sequence every quarter over the next 15 months, each as they are completed. They will not be distributed to stores. As the cycle concludes, the fifth and final 12″ will come packaged in a beautiful, aesthetically cohesive LP box designed to house all four of the preceding releases, forming the complete Privilege album. Limited to 500 physical copies per EP, the 12″s will each feature original art by renowned Swedish illustrator Jenny Mörtsell, and will be hand-numbered in the blood of their respective band members. The fourth 12″–subtitled Sympathy For Spastics–will be released on November 1, 2011, and will be numbered in the blood of cover star/Parenthetical Girl Amber Smith.
Download a rather fine MP3 version of their track “A Note To Self” (From Privilege IV) – from Pitchfork here:
http://bit.ly/vdKCQf
They’ve also covered Kate Bush’s ‘Under The Ivy’ it’s a rather marvellous version that you can stream below. Parenthetical Girls have made no secret of their love for Kate Bush: They’ve played tribute shows in her honor, and are giving away a collection of Bush covers, titled Demos for the Dreaming, to people who purchase the latest Privelege 12-inch.
Parenthetical Girls: “Under The Ivy” (Kate Bush Cover) by prefixmag
