TubeTuesday: Interview with Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls
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I recently interviewed Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls and now ex-member of Xiu Xiu about his upcoming album releases and life with Parenthetical.
Parenthetical Girls is a pop group from Portland, Oregon, and consists of Amber W. Smith, Jherek Bischoff, Paul Alcott, and Zac Pennington.
“I know what a C chord is now. I can also usually identify 5/4 time. These are but a few of the leaps and strides I’ve made over the past year with regard to my musicianship. Non-musicianship is something that I maybe used to romanticize, but I’ve long since past that. It now mostly embarrassing,” said Pennington when asked about the band description of “relative non-musician.”
Parenthetical is currently struggling to finish the final chapter of the Privilege EP series “in a way that seems suitable to the amount we’ve spent on the whole project thus far.” The band plans to release the five part 12″ EP series as a box set, extremely limited.
Pennington also runs his own label which the Privilege series will be released on: Slender Means Society.
“Slender Means Society was formerly a vanity label that I ran alone for some years, which at one point helped to release music by Owen Pallett, Grouper, The Blow, The Dead Science, and Lucky Dragons, among others. It’s recently become simply a clearing house for Parenthetical Girls wares. It occasionally breaks even,” said Pennington.
Pennington, when playing with Xiu Xiu at The Haunt, “had a very pleasant time.”
“Ithaca was one of the few places on that trip that I happened to have friends to visit with. Plus, I’m told the BBQ was exceptional,” said Pennington.
Below is the song The Privilege on the album Privilege: Sympathy For Spastics. This video was also co-directed by Pennington.
