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Our friends at self-titled magazine have hooked us up with a copy of Liz Harris of Grouper's beautiful, extremely limited (100 prints), signed Repeating Patterns 2 print -- pictured above -- to give away to one of you. The print was produced for self-titled's new Heavy Issue, as Liz's "visual interpretation of heaviness...

"Vital" is one of the highlights from Grouper's achingly beautiful new release, an LP's worth of unreleased material that Liz Harris recorded around the same time as her 2008 classic Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill. The Man Who Died in His Boat + the 4th pressing of Dragging... Read More ...

Along with the welcome news that Grouper's out-of-print masterpiece Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill -- one of our favorite albums of the last decade or so -- will see its fourth pressing early next year courtesy of Kranky comes word that Grouper will also release a new record called The Man Who Died In His Boat, an LP of unreleased material from the Dragging era...

A "flashcard interview" with Glass Candy's Ida No. Video by Alberto Rossini. May or may not contain music from After Dark 2 and/or Body Work.

New cosmic psych-house club jam from Portland's Honey Owens + her group the Miracles Club. Taken from Ecstasy's first blog/label compilation, which can be had right here. mp3:

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

We loved the dreamy '80s-leaning first single from Portland's Blouse, but this woozy, fleetingly wistful new jam is kind of next-level for the band, and has us extremely psyched for their forthcoming debut LP, due November 1 via the great Captured Tracks...

Thanks to Defensive Listening for the heads up on Dreamed, the bedroom recording project of Denton's Jessica Minshew. One of the stark "skeletons of songs" that she recently posted up on her Soundcloud page, "Izumi" elicits a hazy, soft-focus melancholy that sticks around longer than you'd expect...

Here's a new track from Portland's Blouse, who are now 3-for-3 at this point: "Firestarter" is a hazy dream-pop gem that manages to be bright, buoyant, and engaging while still maintaining the same air of detached cool the group displayed on vaguely goth-y a-side "Into Black...

We've been enjoying these brand new icy late-night synth jams from Portland's Soft Metals (from the same scene that birthed Honey Owens' psych-house side-project Miracles Club) + Montreal's Gold Zebra. Dark and sexy retro-futuristic Italo-disco created on vintage analog synths and drum machines; both songs highly recommended for those growing impatient for new material from the Glass Candy/Chromat