Amid girlpool's final tour, we're looking back on the band's best tracks:
is textbook early Girlpool. A teenaged Tucker and Tividad interlock their rudimentary guitar and bass lines, adjoining their voices to tell an imaginative and honest coming-of-age tale. The song evokes school days and growing pains, its narrator digging in their heels while change comes to their internal and external worlds alike.
It’s the closest the band ever came to a Sonic Youth-esque noise jam, with Miles Wintner’s rolling drumbeat serving as the spine of a slow-to-set-up rocker that, when it finally pays off, does so like a slot machine. There’s an undeniable confidence to the track, with its gradual build and searching lyricism—the latter aspect is especially impressive, as Tucker and Tividad’s mirrored vocals vacillate between downcast and hopeful .