[DID NOT ATTEND: September 23, 2022] Girlpool / Cecile Believe
I first heard Girlpool back in 2015. I loved the way the two members of the band sang, but not in harmony–it was more like in unison. It gave them almost a childlike quality that somehow made their songs really impactful.
I had wanted to see them live since then. When they came around in 2017, I had a ticket and then a last minute plan meant I couldn’t go. They came back in 2019, but it was during our summer vacation.
Finally, they came back around in 2023, but it was the same night as several other shows, including one I wasn’t going to pass up.
Interestingly, over the past seven years a lot has happened to the band. Avery Tucker transitioned and Harmony Tividad started exploring new facets of herself. So they looked very different from when they first started out.
Their musical style changed a lot as well. They no longer sounded anything like they did on the debut. Primarily because Avery’s voice was no so much deeper. I didn’t enjoy their music that much anymore. So I wasn’t that upset about missing them.
Then on August 25, Girlpool announced that they will breakup at the end of the year, and that their remaining tour dates would serve as a farewell tour. So I guess I’ll never see them live.
Cecile Believe (formerly known as Mozart’s Sister) is a solo project by Montreal-based Canadian musician Caila Thompson-Hannant.
Resident Advisor describers her music:
Cecile Believe’s vocal and emotional range, with its exhilarating twinkles of vulnerability, made an immediate impression on me when I first heard her performing “Ponyboy” and “Faceshopping” .. Her new mixtape, Plucking A Cherry From The Void, a collection of restless and reflective lockdown-fermented electro-pop bangers, has those same attributes in ample supply.
Although I listened to a few songs and wasn’t that impressed. It was all fine.
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