Philadelphia transplant-punker’s, Girlpool have just recently been caught shopping their new song, “Soup” around live gigs such as San Francisco’s own: the Bunker earlier this week. Still in the massive wake of their superb debut effort, Before The World Was Big via Wichita, it appears the female-duo just might have new material already on the horizon; they accomplish this dynamic-feat without the aid of any sort of drummer at all.
Originally based in Los Angeles, the two young-ladies who comprise Girlpool at its core: Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad first made their splash into the aggressive realm of punk-music in November of last year with their debut EP, Girlpool. Since relocating across the country in Philadelphia last January, the girls have seen their fair-share of success.
Trading-in any semblance of a rhythm section for tag-team interplay between bass and lead-guitars, it’s a full-on hypnotic assault of sorts under the cleverly-woven string couplet. “Soup,” professionally filmed by PressureDrop.TV plays slower and far more lilting than songs: “Pretty” and even “Magnifying Glass” from their full-length LP, Before The World Was Big, but every-bit as terse as their previous cuts.
Vocalist/guitarist, Cleo Tucker discusses the band’s motives for relocation and its effect on their songwriting process:
“We thought it’d be cool to try something different. It’s not a complete jump into the unknown, as we’ve met a lot of people from this area previously while on tour, so we knew it would be a positive move for us before we actually did it. It’s hard to fit straight into an established scene when you’re moving across a whole country, but we’ve met a lot of brilliant people and have been made to feel very welcome.”
Tucker goes on to continue:
“I feel like, with Cleo and I, there’s always a similar tempo and route to our songwriting, regardless of circumstance or location.”
Tucker details their creative growth through time:
“Harmony and I’s relationship is always changing and evolving, but the intention is always the same, which is to be present and honest with each other. We feel the album shows a change of emotional taste, representative of the growth Cleo and I have experienced emotionally before and during the writing of the album. I couldn’t pinpoint one reason for any change that comes about in our lyrics, it’s a combination of everything that’s happened to us inside and outside of this band.”
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