Album

Privilege

Parenthetical Girls

2012 · Rock, Pop

Rare pressing on Gatefold

Start your shelf →Open in app
Privilege by Parenthetical Girls

Privilege is an Alt/Indie album by Parenthetical Girls, originally released in 2012. On Gatefold: 3 pressings tracked.

About

Fans of Parenthetical Girls who also happen to be guitar devotees may enjoy <i>Privilege</i> more than 2008's orchestral <i>Entanglements</i>. Featuring a series of previously released EPs spanning 2010—2012, this album displays a range of sounds and moods, including emotional bleeding set to dance floor beats à la The Smiths ("Careful Who You Dance With," "A Note to Self"), staggering jangle-inflected rock ("Evelyn McHale"), and guitar- and synth-stabbing aggression ("Young Throats"). Zac Pennington's intense, swooning delivery on many of his tales of sex-positive explorations and damaged psyches ("For All the Final Girls," "Weaknesses") is enough to make you seek out a sunset with a journal and earbuds in hand, and his take on '80s synth balladry ("Curtains") is simply sentimental and nostalgic, in a good way. As in the songs of Xiu Xiu and Rufus Wainwright, Pennington's lyrics are erudite and literate, full of poetry. Boys who grow "into embarrassments of men," visions of "hallowed hips" and "equine thighs," or "welts that swell up, plate-sized" are drawn in sometimes unsettling portraits of unsettled inner lives.

via Apple Music

The Clerk says

The Clerk knows this whole record — the pressing quirks, the credits, the take.

Start your shelf to read the full take →

Open this record in GatefoldThe full album page. Every pressing and its live price unlocks with Mosh Pit.→

Tracklist

  1. Privilege, Pt. I: On Death & Endearments
  2. Privilege, Pt. II: The Past, Imperfect
  3. Privilege, Pt. III: Mend & Make Do
  4. Privilege, Pt. IV: Sympathy For Spastics
  5. Privilege, Pt. V: Portrait Of A Reputation
  6. -

Side EP

  1. EP1-A1Evelyn McHale
  2. EP1-A2Someone Else's Muse
  3. EP1-B1On Death & Endearments
  4. EP1-B2Found Drama I
  5. EP2-A1The Common Touch
  6. EP2-A2Weaknesses
  7. EP2-B1Young Throats
  8. EP2-B2Present Perfect (An Epithalamium)
  9. EP3-A1The Pornographer
  10. EP3-A2For All The Final Girls
  11. EP3-B1Careful Who You Dance With
  12. EP3-B2Mend & Make Do (Found Drama II)
  13. EP4-A1The Privilege
  14. EP4-A2A Note To Self
  15. EP4-B1Entitlements
  16. EP4-B2Sympathy For Spastics
  17. EP5-A1Portrait Of A Reputation
  18. EP5-A2Brimstone & Vaseline
  19. EP5-B1The Comedienne
  20. EP5-B2Evelyn McHale (Reprise)
  21. EP5-B3Curtains

Side DVD

  1. DVD-1Evelyn McHale
  2. DVD-2Young Throats
  3. DVD-3The Common Touch
  4. DVD-4The Pornographer
  5. DVD-5Careful Who You Dance With
  6. DVD-6The Privilege
  7. DVD-7Curtains
  8. DVD-8Et Cetera

Sound DNA

  • Alt/Indie
  • Indie Rock
  • lush
  • witty
  • theatrical

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Amber SmithVOCALS
  • Freddy Ruppert
  • Jherek Bischoff
  • Matt Dabrowiak
  • Paul AlcottDRUMS, ELECTRIC BASS, GUITAR, SYNTHESIZER
  • Rachael JensenPIANO VOCALS VOCALS , PIANO
  • Zac PenningtonPERFORMER, CAMERAMAN , FILM EDITOR WRITTEN-BY, PERFORMER WRITTEN-BY, WORDS BY, PERFORMER
  • Alan DePuyORGAN
  • John WhaleyTRUMPET
  • Jonathan SielaffBASS CLARINET
  • Matt CarlsonPIANO SYNTHESIZER
  • Sam MickensELECTRIC PIANO PIANO

Rare pressing on Gatefold · 3 pressings tracked on Gatefold

View this release on Discogs →

Start your shelf.

Track your pressings of Privilege, get the Clerk's take, and see what the record is worth — free.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.