High Places
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High Places
High Places
[ Mistletone Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 13 October 2008
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This New York duo's signature sound is bass-heavy with crisp beats, lilting vocal melodies & syncopated rhythmic lines; performed on folk percussion instruments, including the manipulation of household objects.
Rob Barber & May Pearson sound as if they grew up with Paul Simon's 'Graceland' but then went away to art school and dropped a bunch of acid. 'High Places' is a notable debut for fusing the heady avant-pop instincts of contemporaries such as Panda Bear & Atlas Sound with a childlike playfulness; in addition to a clear emphasis on staying grounded in nature as both a musical guideline and a life philosophy. Minimal beats, analog loops, and oddball percussion collide with banjos, folk guitars, and May's Kim Gordon-meets-Jenny-Lewis vocals for a record that is by turns catchy & coy, innocent + accomplished.
Tracks:
1. The Storm
2. You in Forty Years
3. The Tree With the Lights in It
4. Vision's the First...
5. Gold Coin
6. Papaya Year
7. Namer
8. Golden
9. A Field Guide
10. From Stardust to Sentience
