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Grouper 

Grouper

Reverb. Echo. Effects. Acoustic. Droney. These are some words you could use to explain Grouper's earlier work. Grouper is the solo project of Liz Harris. Her first album was self-titled & self-released. Grouper's second album was 2006's Way Their Crept. There was something special about that mid-ought's droney-underwater sounding indie. Grouper would go on to release five (!) more albums before I came on board as a fan: 2006's Wide, 2007's Cover The Windows & The Walls, 2008's widely acclaimed Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill & 2011's double-album (but separately released) AIA: Dream Loss & AIA: Alien Observer... just to be followed up by 2012's double album: Violent Replacement Part I and Violent Replacement Part II. It wasn't until Grouper's more structured-releases that I became a full fledged fan. It was with 2013's The Man Who Died In His Boat that I finally jumped on board as a full-fledged-fan. Since then she has released 2014's Ruins & 2018's Grid of Points. Grouper is able to combine aspects of ambient + dream pop into an other-worldly music-experience. Equally parts mysterious. Equally parts moving. She is a product of Northern California / Pacific Northwest. A good place to start would be with "Living Room," "Clearing," or "Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping." This is music that can be played as you wake up to greet the day or in the wee hours during when the late night tales have ended... when the world is asleep. It's no hooper...
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