High Places - 03/07 – 09/07

Collection of hard-to-find singles from US duo High Places.   Released to coincide with a UK tour (including dates with Deerhunter).
Robert Barber grew up listening to punk and hardcore, and Mary Pearson studied bassoon performance, but both gravitated toward a DIY compositional style and a love of layers. It is the affinity for layering that has thus far defined the duo, both in ideas and instrumentation. High Places’ songs contain a fascinating range of aural layers: bells and bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting mixing bowls over treated guitar and glockenspiel; Mary's reflective vocals over Rob's homemade beats.
High Places’ first offering is this, the singles collection ‘03/07 – 09/07’ that collects the above mentioned songs plus a few harder to find gems (‘Jump In’ being a song commissioned for an elementary school music program, ‘Freaked Flight” a reworked demo cut and ‘Canary’ which appeared on a compilation) from 2007 making them all available for the first time world wide on CD. No need to scour EBay. All the magnificent tracks that endeared them to us and those lucky enough to have seen them so far, will be included.
The CD release of ‘03/07 – 09/07’ will be followed by their eagerly awaited debut full-length due out later this year.

Head Spins (Extended Version)
Sandy Feat (7 Inch Version)
Banana Slugs-Cosmonaut
Shared Islands
Universe    Greeting the Light
Granola
Freaked Flight (Alternate Version)
Jump In (For Gilkey Elementary School)
Canary

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