Blog: Time to play b-sides

The High Places' first release on Thrill Jockey is a collection of singles and hard-to-find tracks leading up to their signing. This release stands as an introduction to the collaboration of Robert Barber and Mary Pearson. Barber provides a babbling brook of cut-and-paste drum circle riddims propelling the paper boats of Pearson's innocent iko-ikoish jumprope chants. Daycare psychedelica for the Thomas the Tank Engine set, if you will. At times the at once atmospheric and Caribbean feel of the songs reminds me of my favorite parts of Adventures in the Ultraworld by the Orb. [...]

• High Places - Head Spins