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Grouper - "Parking Lot"

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“Parking Lot” is the first single from Grouper’s upcoming album Grid of Points, which will be released on April 27 via Kranky. This will be her first album in four years, following up 2014’s Ruins.

The minimalist song is sonically similar to what appeared on Ruins and creates a hypnotizing atmosphere with its echoing vocals and piano. The song is practically formless and the lyrics are almost indiscernible, but the emphasis is certainly on the aesthetic.

Grouper has also announced a tour that will kick off in Berlin on April 20. There will be a number of European dates as well as a show in Calgary and Arcosanti, Arizona.

-Owen Murray

YUNOREVIEW: NOVEMBER 2014

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The magical monthly segment where I briefly touch down on a gauntlet of albums I didn't get a chance to review this past month. These are just my short, straightforward, passionate, biased opinions. These are the albums I touch down on: Killjoy Club - Reindeer Games Grouper - Ruins Wiley - Snakes & Ladders This Will Destroy You - Another Language Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien Twin Peaks - Wild Onion Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind At The Gates - At War With Reality The Contortionist - Language Jessie Ware - Tough Love

Mirroring- "Fell Sound"

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Mirroring is a new collaborative project featuring two well-respected female musicians, Grouper and Tiny Vipers. For years, these two have been releasing music that encompasses the worlds of ambient music, folk, and psychedelia. It'll be nice to hear how they impact one another on this forthcoming record.

The album on the way is titled Foreign Body, and it'll be out on Kranky in March. Take a listen to the first track to drop fro the album, "Fell Sound," above.

Grouper- "Alien Observer"

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On this title track from one of Grouper's two new albums, Liz Harris creates "vastness," and packs it into three minutes of arpeggios and ghostly vocals. The lo-fi production makes the music really smudgy and obscured, but there's still something therapeutic about the repetition and textures here. Listening to this is a lot like walking through a foggy graveyard, or floating slowly atop a body of water on a starry night. It's not music I could really dissect in the same way I review most albums on this channel. For an album such as this, I need to lie down and wait to float away on an ambient cloud.

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