Name: Shade
Brand: Grouper

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KRANK233CD

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-29

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Supplier US

Revol­ver

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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796441823321

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KRANK233LP

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2021-11-19

796441823314

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Artist

Grouper

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Kranky

Grouper is the solo project of American musician, artist and producer Liz Harris. With a career spanning over two decades, Grouper has established herself as a prominent figure in the experimental music scene. Known for her ethereal and haunting soundscapes, Grouper's music transcends traditional genres, creating a unique sonic experience for listeners.

Throughout her career, Grouper has collaborated with various artists, including Xiu Xiu, Tiny Vipers (Mirrorring), Roy Montgomery, The Bug, Lawrence English (Slow Walkers), and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (Raum). These collaborations have allowed Grouper to explore new musical territories and push the boundaries of her own artistic expression.

With a discography that spans numerous albums and EPs, Grouper's music continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Her introspective lyrics combined with atmospheric instrumentation create an immersive listening experience that resonates deeply with fans. If you're a fan of artists such as Tim Hecker, Julianna Barwick or Oneohtrix Point Never, then Grouper's unique blend of ambient and experimental sounds will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression.

Staff Picks of the Year 2021

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 its 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.”

Shade

Music US

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