"Brandishing the ways you get yourself in trouble has long been a celebrated punk trope, but more than anything, Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad have been interested in growth, both as individuals and a creative unit. Girlpool's new album, Forgiveness, toys with nostalgia only to the extent that it might allow for past selves to be embraced with a degree of softness, balancing out the pricklier task of unpacking the mistakes that memory prefers to obscure".