Harmony Tividad’s ‘Lifetime’ Is a California Self-Portrait

Harmony Tividad has spent years dissecting vulnerability from inside the duo Girlpool. On her first solo album, Lifetime, the lens widens to an entire city. Los Angeles is the constant backdrop—not as a postcard but as a psychological terrain where sunshine and damage coexist.

The 12-track record, out now, pulls from lead singles that already hinted at this sharper pop sensibility. “Best Dressed” and “Mulholland Drive” frame the city’s glamour as something to pick apart, not envy. “I’m Still Learning How To Leave You” works a raw nerve of attachment into something almost deceptively smooth. Tividad calls the album her “yellow brick road” — a way to negotiate living in truth without pretending life’s mess resolves easily.

That phrase might ring sentimental, but the music is cautious with easy uplift. There’s an awareness here that Los Angeles, her lifelong home, trades in illusions. Tividad isn’t aiming to debunk them so much as map the contradictions: the allure, the betrayals, the pockets of real feeling you find between self-made mythologies.

The album resists tidy autobiography. It’s more a fragmented self-portrait scattered across neighborhoods and late-night drives. For a songwriter already known for emotional precision, Lifetime doesn’t feel like a departure from Girlpool but a clearing of space. The chaos is still there. It’s just given more room to move.