Girlpool - Powerplant (2017 Full Album 320 WAV Download)

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Do I know Girlpool? I can’t remember. I think Anonymous Rex recommended (Rex-ommended?) them for their last album to prove he could handle women musicians but now I’m not sure. The fact that he mentioned this new album supports that theory though.

1. 123

Here comes “123”. Going to have a hard time since Morby just played me “1234” and that’s a bigger sequence so clearly better. But I do love multi-female folk vocals so win me over here, pool of girls. But why are you suddenly hitting that cymbal so much? It’s all I can hear and I’m not happy about it one bit. But you keep counting to three and since Anonymous Toddler does too I will let this cymbal assault go for now but please don’t keep it up unless you will teach me more numbers. Strangely, this song felt shorter than it actually was.

2. Sleepless 

Maybe my ears are tired because the sounds on this album are all pointy and feel like they’re poking me. This guitar sound is interesting but really sounds separate from the rest of the sounds. Some pretty and breathy vocals…and now hard rock chugging? Is this that melodic metalcore I’ve heard so much about? I may have been tricked into listening to this. Not a good sign that I’m already peeking ahead and feeling relief that most songs aren’t over three minutes.

3. Corner Store

Cowboy boogie, dance me into this corner store! Still too sharp on the guitar but at least so far no one is trying to get me to mosh. Oh wait, there it is. They couldn’t even go a minute without it. And oh my god why is that distortion happening? This just makes me want to listen to “Yardsale” by The Avett Brothers.

4. Your Heart 

Oh thank god…no thrashing yet. This sounds a little like La Sera but then the vocals start and they’re starting to grate on me. It’s not a good sign that by song four I -STOP STRUMMING THAT GUITAR SO HARD OR AT LEAST TURN DOWN THE TREBLE- am thinking that the only reason I haven’t turned the music off is because I committed myself to this ridiculous live review. And Anonymous Rex did it, and I can’t let him beat me. My heart is…something. I can’t understand what they’re saying. They don’t seem to care because by the time they were repeating whatever my heart is they awkwardly rushed a fade-out. 10 bonus points for no heavy metal in this song.

5. Kiss And Burn 

Someone is singing flat.

6. Fast Dust 

Hey, I don’t mind this song! I love songs about bouncing rubber balls, and it’s a nice slow pace without a ton of snare or cymbal at the forefront. I’m not letting it make up for the first five songs though. The two-minute song thing is the only saving grace so far.

7. Powerplant 

OK, I’m all right with this so far too. Hey, did she just say “Donovan”? Maybe "Jonathon"? Let me find the lyrics and see. Oh crap…the song name is also the album name. Well this isn’t really working. But she said it again and it sure sounded like it so I’m going with “yes”. So this song is about Jonathondonavan. I’m kind of bored though and only perk up when she says the name, whatever it is.

8. High Rise 

More flat singing. They could really use a singing coach, or at least an auto tune. Oh and wow…that’s not even a finished song. It’s over in a minute. I guess that happened. I’m in favor – it gets me closer to the end of the album.

9. Soup 

This song is called soup and I hate soup. My crappy body can’t tell it apart from real liquid and I cough when I eat it. She said “Johnny”…is that the same person from the other song? Are they throwing away their soup together? I was just about to mention how much I appreciated that there hadn’t been any ROCK ROCK ROCK AND ROLL in a while but they started chugging away before they got to the part about dads.

10. She Goes By 

Kicking off with all my least favorite parts of the album so far, and I now know something about myself – while I appreciate silence in the middle of songs I really hate the half-beat silence followed by ALL THE INSTRUMENTS that hard rockers like to do. I guess I get what this band is trying to do but I feel like a lot of people did it way better in the late 90s. Even then this would have been dumped into my trade stack of CDs.

11. It Gets More Blue 

Did I miss a song? I can’t tell. They are going by really quickly even though I spend most of the time hating every note. I don’t feel like counting back so I’ll note that this is about the song “It Gets More Blue”. Anonymous Grrl loves blue and usually I mention songs with the color to her but she would hate this too so I’ll pretend it doesn’t exist. The singer woman(s?) said nihilist and faked global warming so therefore she is intellectual. More flat singing. I want to turn this off in spite just so I can say I couldn’t make it to the end. Why is she talking about garbage again? At least the crunchy guitar is a little more evened out here.  I’m not unsure as to whether there are multiple women singing or just one singing poorly over herself on multiple tracks. I don’t care enough to look it up.

12. Static Somewhere 

Eh, this is OK. It seems like a reasonable closer but at this point I’m angry enough that I’m picking apart every lyric as trite and then look at that…the same trick as every other song. Halfway through we don’t know what to do and want to break things up so let’s strum all our guitars and hit all our drums all at once! I would never listen to this album again and the way this song is closing out I will only remember the crappiest parts. What the hell was that outro? It sounded like someone was going to play a Hendrix-style Star Spangled Banner and then forgot what they were doing. It’s for the best.

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