| Grouper / Shade |
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| Album: | Shade | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Grouper | Added: | Feb 2022 | |
| Label: | Kranky | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2022-03-14 | Pull Date: | 2022-05-16 |
| Week Ending: | May 15 | May 8 | May 1 | Apr 24 | Apr 17 | Apr 3 | Mar 20 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 11, 2022: | Music Casserole The Way Her Hair Falls | 4. | May 05, 2022: | Stranded at Settembrini's Kelso (Blue Sky) | |
| 2. | May 19, 2022: | nearby galaxies Kelso (Blue Sky) | 5. | Apr 30, 2022: | funhouse Kelso (Blue Sky) | |
| 3. | May 14, 2022: | Music Casserole Promise | 6. | Apr 23, 2022: | Music Casserole Kelso (Blue Sky) |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2022-03-15 | ||
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First album by Liz Harris, the surprise icon of introverted ambient-folk, under this name since 2018. (She's also done recent work using the name Nivhek.) This album compiles recordings spanning 2008 to 2021, and it does comes across as a miscellany, surveying some of her artistic range, bouncing between noisy drone pieces and simple songs with acoustic guitar. There's a casual collage effect, like the films of her late collaborator Paul Clipson. Favorites: 2, 6, 7, 9. No FCCs detected. 1. (2:55)—Staticky, blown out, like hearing post-rock over a broken transmitter. 2. *(3:51)—Mid-tempo guitar strumming, like a demo for a '90s alt-rock song. 3. (2:54)—Very slow fingerpicked acoustic guitar. 4. (3:52)—Mid-tempo fingerpicking, a lot like her songs on Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill. 5. (4:35)—Noisy, faded lo-fi drone-rock, again like picking up a degraded transmission. 6. *(2:36)—Acoustic guitar and voice. Recording of Harris attempting the first few lines of a song over and over, like a haiku mantra. 7. *(2:50)—Slow, soft fingerpicked guitar. Close vocals, gentle hiss. Reminds me of her collaborator Tiny Vipers. 8. (5:18)—Washed out fingerpicking and vocal harmonies. 9. *(6:16)—Mid-tempo. Higher fidelity, the most formally finished-sounding piece of the bunch. Great place to start for anyone new to Grouper. Breathtaking. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Followed the Ocean | 5. | Disordered Minds | |||
| 2. | Unclean Mind | 6. | The Way Her Hair Falls | |||
| 3. | Ode to the Blue | 7. | Promise | |||
| 4. | Pale Interior | 8. | Basement Mix | |||
| 9. | Kelso (Blue Sky) | |||||