Video: Grouper - Hold the Way

Though there isn't much more than a blurb on this but Grouper, the electro-acoustic, ambient noise project of musician Liz Harris announced on her very mystical website, that A I A, the much anticipated new album, will be a two part vinyl and self released in early 2011. A repressing of Inca Ore/Grouper Split will happen [...]

Portlander Liz Harris has really been doing well for herself the past four or so years. In 2005, her self-titled and self-released debut album came out followed by the sophomore Way Their Crept after signing with Type. She then released a stunning collaboration with Xiu Xiu, Creepshow in 2006, and an EP in 2007. Last year, Grouper's third full-length "Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill" gave Pitchfork an instant orgasm and this year, the video for "Hold the Way", a song from her new EP Vessel made their top music videos of 2009 [...]

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This mad scone plays Filmbase as part of DEAF on October 30th. Earlier in the year, I marked out Liz Harris' music as "Hippy dippy, airy-fairy ambient folk music". She has a new EP called Vessel out in winter. The gig in Filmbase is a Skinny Wolves gig and a joint headliner with John Wiese. It's also a BYOB event. More info on the gig and a freaky video: http://www.myspace.com/grouper repuorg Related Posts [...]

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For me, Grouper 's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill was 2008's sleeper hit. Filled with hazy, broken melodies and unsettling effects, the record took me by storm in early December and hasn't let go since. Essentially a one-woman project led by Portland, Oregon, musician Liz Harris , Grouper's music is generally emotive, haunting, and lo-fi, chock full of decaying melodies and reverb-drenched beauty. After spending a portion of 2009 touring with Animal Collective , Harris seems ready to reveal her latest work to a new batch of fans. Though there's very little information to be found otherwise, [...]