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eaturing dense yet expansive arrangements by instrumentalist Matt Carlson and producer Jherek Bischoff, Parenthetical Girls's Entanglements is an orchestral-pop-meets-modern-classical song cycle that thematically spans from the frantic pangs of adolescent lust to more mature, contemplative desire, with the instrumental title song serving as a passageway between the two. Founder and lead vocalist Zac Pennington gender-bends his way through the album with the trembling falsetto of a choirboy or schoolgirl: "I felt his size close to a dozen times/His legs gave way like pages from a pop-up book/And I had to look," he sings on the vaudevillian "Unmentionables," while the harpsichord-driven...