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Girls in Trouble Release to release Half You Half Me on JDub Records on May 17, 2011
Orchestral art-pop about androgynous storm demons, jealous sisters and knife accidents: this is the world of Half You Half Me, the second album in Girls in Trouble's ongoing song-cycle.
Inspired by storyteller- songwriters such as Leonard Cohen and Joanna Newsom, bandleader Alicia Jo Rabins creates first-person songs based on obscure stories of Biblical women, investigating the hidden places where their complicated lives overlap with hers. Half You Half Me retains the emotional vulnerability and poetic focus of Girls in Trouble's self-titled debut while broadening the band's sound into eclectic, atmospheric landscapes.
Alicia Jo Rabins is a Brooklyn- based poet, songwriter, biblical scholar and violinist. Girls in Trouble began as a way to get out of writing her masters thesis and developed into a full band that has toured together across America and Europe. Alicia wrote Half You Half Me on an acoustic guitar in the tiny apartment she shares with husband/bassist Aaron Hartman (Old Time Relijun, K Records), who helped transform the album's songs into their full gorgeousness: intimate vocals surrounded by electric guitars, big drums, analog synths, and Alicia's intricate violin arrangements.
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