Pre-summer blues here. Girlpool blesses us with another single off their upcoming album, Powerplant, and I'm really appreciating their revamped sound. With the addition of drums and an intensified chorus, Cleo and Harmony bring forth a fuller, harder punk rock feel - one that replaces a primarily acoustic sound in their previous work. That hard rock sound gives the band an alternative route to expressing love's cruelty, a route it's touched While the characteristic of emptiness was successful in their earlier work, I strongly enjoy the effort at something more upbeat and engaging, especially as it relates to the emotion of the track. The young duo has been expressing lovers' pain since earlier releases like "Cherry Picking" and "Chinatown", both coming off the previous album, Before The World Was Big. Yet, none of their earlier efforts capture a lover's cruelty quite like "It Gets More Blue". How often do we see a person's heartache belittled to 'it could be worse...'? That's the sentiment behind this track - someone waiting for a relationship to get better while they work so hard to please the other. "You'll build him a tower; he'll burn you a bridge." It's not a line to be overlooked - the giving to a selfish person while oneself is left out to dry. "It Gets More Blue" is groovy, and I love it. If you love it, too, look out for Girlpool's upcoming album, Powerplant, dropping May 12th.
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