Today, the Los Angeles duo Girlpool, comprised of Harmony Tividad (she/her) and Cleo Tucker (he/they), has announced their new album, What Chaos Is Imaginary is due out February 1st, 2019 via Anti- Records.
Listen below to the album lead single, “Hire“.
“Before, we would build our songs together with four hands, from the ground up,” says Tucker, referring to the songwriting process that produced the debut EP and 2015’s follow-up, Before The World Was Big. “Our songs used to be intertwined in a different way. We brought our separate experiences to the songs that we crafted together, we valued understanding that they were multidimensional.”
Discussing the new process, Harmony says, “It’s helped me find validity in parts of my writing I found to be unapproachable. I thought my stream-of-consciousness was unsophisticated.”
Where Harmony embraces chaos, Cleo organizes it. “It’s hard for me to feel completion without achieving a vision that I have. I’ll imagine the kind of climate I want to create inside a song,” says Cleo of his process. “Once I fall in love with the direction, it’s getting there that can take time. It took a really long time to record this record. It feels like a photograph of a very transitional time.”
Additionally, Girlpool have announced a 2019 spring tour with support from Hatchie. All dates below.
4/4 – Tustin, CA @ Marty’s On Newport *
4/5 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah *
4/6 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater *
4/9 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent *
4/11 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *
4/12 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos *
4/13 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret *
4/16 – St Paul, MN @ Turf Club *
4/17 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon *
4/18 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
4/19 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig *
4/20 – Toronto, ON @ Longboat Hall *
4/21 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz *
4/23 – Boston, MA @ Royale *
4/24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
4/25 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *
4/26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts *
4/27 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes *
4/28 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat *
4/30 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall *
5/1 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt *
5/2 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn *
5/3 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon *
5/4 – Houston, TX @ Satellite *
5/5 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger *
5/7 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk *
5/8 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada *
5/9 – Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street Coop *
5/10 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf *
5/11 – Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole *