Mirrorring is the new dream collaboration between Liz Harris of Grouper + Jesy Fortino of Tiny Vipers, two artists whose respective solo works have been among the most haunting and affecting releases of the last few years. Their pensive, often devastating new record Foreign Body was born of a songwriting session in Harris' hometown of Portland sometime last year, and has subsequently become our g
For those of y'all that asked about where to find the massive Evian Christ tracks from our January mix, here you go: his new label Tri-Angle has unleashed glorious high-quality, mastered 320 mbps versions of all of the young UK producer's youtube joints in the form of his debut Kings and Them mixtape...
While we patiently await the release of her devastatingly beautiful collaboration with Tiny Vipers, here's "dreampop slayer" Grouper's decayed, blown-out new cover of Dead Moon's 1989 song "Demona," taken from the exclusive 7" that accompanies the latest edition of the always stellar YETI magazine...
Quite a few people (starting with the dudes at Dummy) talking about this anonymous producer who just threw up a handful of heavy, ambient-meets-juke beats on his/her new youtube channel over the weekend. Promising stuff, with some interesting + inspired sample choices, as heard on "Thrown Like Jacks," which is based on a Tyga sample over something that definitely sounds like it's from D
Here's a haunted, fragile new one from Grouper's Liz Harris and her Portland homie Ilyas Ahmed, taken from their new collaborative EP, released under the moniker Visitor as "part of Social Music's year long record and tape club subscription series...
Listen to both sides of the fragile, devastatingly beautiful new 7" single from Portland's Grouper: "Water People" + "Moving Machine," both of which would have fit quite nicely on Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, were recorded last spring in Marfa, TX, and released in edition of 500 on white vinyl by Ballroom Marfa...
Talented director Weston Currie sent over this trailer for The Perception of Moving Targets, his "anthology of 4 short films scored by the songs of Grouper." The films will premiere October 1 in NYC, and will feature live accompaniment by Liz Harris herself...
Intensely dark and hauntingly beautiful new official video for Grouper's "I Saw a Ray," which director Weston Currie tells us is the first in an album-length series of short films they're making for AIA.
Here are our favorite records + songs from the first half of 2011. If you're into reading, we've written about most of these here and in some other places. We've also enjoyed checking out all of your picks, as always. Please let us know what we missed:
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01 Shabazz Palaces :: Black Up
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02 Peaking Lights :: 936
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03 Panda Bear :: Tomboy
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