Girlpool are in album mode, preparing to rellease their fourth studio LP, Forgiveness, on April 29 via ANTI-. They dropped its first single — the breezy, dream-folk "Faultline" — in December, and a follow-up — the club-adjacent, dance-pop "Lie Love Lullaby" — last month.
Now they've shared a third offering, "Dragging My Life Into a Dream," along with a music video. The new song is fried folk rock a la Kurt Vile, with Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad's supremely soothing harmonies elevating it to a more sublime altitude than the Violators usually reach.
Lyrically, it's an ode to nostalgia, a postlapsarian plea for a return to Edenic youth. Read Next: Girlpool announce new album, share “Lie Love Lullaby” “I wrote ‘Dragging My Life Into a Dream’ after going out to a party," Tucker explains. "I had spent the last year confronting being on my own in a way I had been avoiding for a long time.
Although I knew that I was growing and still needed to heal from past relationships, I missed feeling connected to somebody and inspired.
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