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premiere: Grouper - Driving
premiere: Grouper - Driving
premiere: Grouper - Driving
We are honored to share another devastating song from Grouper's forthcoming LP Grid of Points, out later this month on Kranky. Liz Harris has said that the new album was inspired by "the idea that something is missing or cold", adding, "The intimacy and abbreviation of this music allude to an essence that the songs lyrics speak more directly of...
Grouper - Parking Lot
Grouper - Parking Lot
Grouper - Parking Lot
Liz Harris returns next month with another devastating Grouper album, in a similar vein as her 2014 masterpiece Ruins. Grid of Points is a starkly beautiful, intimate, and achingly fleeting "set of songs for piano and voice", inspired by "the idea that something is missing or cold"...
video premiere: Christina Vantzou – At Dawn
video premiere: Christina Vantzou – At Dawn
video premiere: Christina Vantzou – At Dawn
Belgium-based minimalist ambient composer Christina Vantzou shares a spectral 16MM short film, soundtracked by Vantzou's beautifully glacial and elegiac "At Dawn," one of the gorgeous highlights from her utterly immersive, trance-inducing forthcoming fourth full-length for Kranky...
Demen - Ambur
Demen - Ambur
Demen - Ambur
We briefly referenced the "surreal romantic Lynchian horror vibes" of demen's sublimely spooky and poignant "ambur" when we premiered her debut single "niorum" about a month back, and today the reclusive Stockholm artist officially shares the otherworldly highlight from her stunning forthcoming debut LP...
hear the stunning debut from Sweden’s Demen
hear the stunning debut from Sweden’s Demen
hear the stunning debut from Sweden’s Demen
We're excited to introduce the newest addition to the esteemed Kranky roster (home to such luminaries as Grouper and Benoit Pioulard, among others), a reclusive and enigmatic new Swedish artist from Stockholm named Irma Orm, aka Demen. She creates in solitude these beautifully glacial otherworldly elegies -- the label calls them "hermetic gothic swan songs" -- that haunt and disquiet on
video: Helen – Covered in Shade
video: Helen – Covered in Shade
video: Helen – Covered in Shade
Directed by Jamie Potter. "Covered in Shade" is taken from Helen's new LP the original faces (quickly becoming one of our favorite records of the year), out today on Kranky.

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