Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad have been making critically-acclaimed music as Girlpool since they
were high schoolers, scurrying around Los Angeles’ all-ages concert spaces and skipping class to play
gigs with their friends. As their radically minimal first full-length Before The World Was Big was winning
them fans far beyond the DIY circles they came from, the duo was testing out life on the east coast, where
they continued to translate the bittersweet beauty of late-adolescence into melodic punk and indie-pop.
Their next two albums, Powerplant and What Chaos Is Imaginary, are sonic time capsules documenting
their development — as songwriters, but also as humans, moving through the world together and
separately.
A few years ago, Girlpool returned full-time to their hometown of Los Angeles. Now in their mid-20s,
Avery and Harmony are coming to terms with what it means to reengage with the sprawling sunburnt
metropolis of their youth as adults. Unsurprisingly, they’ve started making songs that feel as complex and
mysterious as the experiences that have shaped this tumultuous era of their lives. Enter Forgiveness, the
brand new full-length Girlpool album, which finds the duo embracing weirdo-pop decadence without
sacrificing the poetic curiosity that has always made their music so absorbing.
