Safe as Houses

by Parenthetical Girls

Safe as Houses cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 June 2006
  • Label: Slender Means Society
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:14
  • Community rating: 3.26/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Rachael Jensen, Jherek Bischoff, Ambrose Nortness

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Safe as Houses' envelops its morbid, theatrical lyricism in lush chamber pop and indietronica arrangements. The Portland collective utilizes melodramatic orchestrations to juxtapose Zac Pennington's uniquely anachronistic and anxious vocal style.

Genres

Descriptors: death, suicide, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Love Connection, Pt II (5:16)
  2. I Was the Dancer (4:42)
  3. Oh Daughter/Disaster (4:01)
  4. One Father, Another (3:16)
  5. The Weight She Fell Under (3:09)
  6. Survived By Her Mother (3:34)
  7. Keyholes and Curtains (4:01)
  8. Forward to Forget (2:45)
  9. The Four Platitudes (A Bridge Song) (3:16)
  10. Stolen Children (4:10)

Credits

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