Grouper -Shade -Kranky LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Followed The Ocean"
02. "Unclean Mind"
03. "Ode To The Blue"
04. "Pale Interior"
05. "Disordered Minds"
06. "The Way Her Hair Falls"
07. "Promise"
08. "Basement Mix K"
09. "Kelso (Blue Sky)"

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Shade by Grouper, released 19 November 2021, includes the following tracks: "Ode To The Blue", "Disordered Minds", "Promise", "Kelso (Blue Sky)" and more. This version of Shade comes as a 1xLP. The vinyl is pressed as a opaque disc. -

The 12th full-length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning fifteen years. She characterizes Shade as an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally. How one frames themselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames themselves; memories and experiences carried forward mapping a connection to place-"an ode to blue / what lives in shade." Songs touch on loss, flaws, hiding places, love. Deep connections to the Bay Area, and the North Coast, with it's unique moods of solitude, beauty, and isolation-a place described and transformed by the chaos and power of river-mouth, wild maritime storms, columns of mist that rise up unexpectedly on the road at night. Portions were recorded on Mount Tamalpais during a self-made residency years back, other pieces made longer ago in Portland, while the rest were tracked during more recent sessions in Astoria.Throughout, Harris threads a hidden radiant language of voice, disquiet, and guitar, framed by open space and the sense of being far away-"Echoing a lighthouse, burying the faults of being human / Into things that we project upon the sky at night."

Includes double-sided insert with lyrics. Mastering Stephan at Schwebung. Back cover photo © Amiran White. All songs Liz Harris / Grouper 2008 - 2021, North Coast. Kelso recorded with Justin Higgins. Disordered Minds recorded at Paul + Allisons, Allison Herlihy on drums. Thankyou: Arno + Nadine, Raf, Brian, Craig, Paul,?river-mouth, stormy weather, black ice, flawed nature.

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00148131

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