Girlpool Share Two New Tracks Lucy's And Where You Sink
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Benedict Brink
Girlpool have shared two new tracks, sort of.
Where You Sink and Lucy's have been revamped from the rough, stripped back versions that were previously shared by Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker on their respective solo Bandcamp pages. The new iterations see the pair's trademark harmonies fleshed out with fuzzed up,electric guitars and drums. Though Tucker's has since been removed, the previous version of Where You Sink can still be heard as part of Tividad's 'Oove Is Rare' here.
The singles follow up the duo's February collaboration with Devonté Hynes, Picturesong, which marked their first new material since 2017's 'Powerplant', and arrive ahead of their fifth anniversary show at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn on October 23. Following this they will hit the road to support Porches on his North American tour.
About Lucy's, Tucker said:
"This song responds to stubborn feelings from a past relationship. I wrote 'Lucy's' a couple of years ago to sort through some droning thoughts about hope, distraction and love. 'I swear I'll be alright/although (you) are in the sky,' continues to resonate. These lyrics distinguish a time when my partner would check out from our relationship. I reassured myself that even when they were not present, and I was, that I would be alright. I was hopeful that my partner would find resolve from their struggles, which stifled their capacity to provide the kind of care and attention that I needed. I practiced nurture, and I hoped that they would find the ambition that I saw in them."
About Where You Sink, Tividad said:
"'Where You Sink' explores our fixations on characters in our lives and the projections we create. It explores our natural human desire to be made special by another. I wrote it when I found myself looking at one person from various angles (emotionally); I found them to be beautiful in toxic but charismatic ways. It's about loving someone who you don't really have the chance to get to know fully because their time is spent trying to get out of their head, further from reality. It explores the complications of trying to get close to someone who ultimately wants to be far from themselves."
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