I don't really mind Enya as a reference (Enya is pretty awesome imo tho) and I have been digging pretty heavily on Dead Deer for the last couple weeks.
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 12 June 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Enya making airport symphonies for hipsters is the kind of stuff my friends say about the downtempo balearic cheeze i listen to. it kind of goes hand in hand with "elevator music for grad students", a term which used to bug me but i think i'm ok with it know
― guammls (QE II), Friday, 12 June 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahaha, no no, that was meant as a response to the reviewer, for some reason.
Ah, makes sense now. I laughed out loud. Nice one.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 12 June 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
WAY THEIR CREPT and DRAGGING A DEAD DEER are two of my favorite records right now. Is there any other stuff out there like this? Melodic, atmospheric, experimental, droning, and emotional?
― dreamsonvhs, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is kinda staggered by the one two punch of heavy water and stuck
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
dead deer obv
I really wish we could edit the title of this thread!
― PIN number at the ATM Machine (Z S), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Video for HOLD THE WAY
http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/07/video-grouper-hold-the-way/
― dreamsonvhs, Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Should have mentioned I saw her last month as the final act of the On Land festival. Entrancing, mesmerizing, etc -- if a band like School of Seven Bells is (mostly) about shoegaze as propulsion and pop, Grouper is (mostly) about it as immersion and flow.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Gooooorgeous live set over at the free music archive http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WFMU/blog/ATP-NY_2009_Grouper_MP3 From ATP last month ...
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
saw her columbia university when she was in NY for ATP. was great. loved the swirls of white noise running through the whole set.
― original bgm, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure I'm going to splash out and see her on Sunday, based on these last few comments. Anybody disagree with the decision?
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Friday, 30 October 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Glasgow then? See you there!
― krakow, Friday, 30 October 2009 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't know there were UK/Euro dates! Would love to see her live. Don't think I can make any of them, sadly, but I'll have to think about it.
I have fallen in love with (mp3s of) her tour split 7" from last year with City Center and it's totally out of print, alas. Anyone know if there is a tour release this time round, so I can act more promptly?
― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 30 October 2009 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Are the new myspace tracks "Hold The Way" and "Vessel" available to download anywhere?
― plazzTT, Friday, 30 October 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
(just noticed Vessel EP coming out in Late 2009)
― plazzTT, Friday, 30 October 2009 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
she had this 7" when I saw her but not the city center split:
http://www.discogs.com/Grouper-He-Knows-He-Knows-He-Knows/release/1771400
― original bgm, Friday, 30 October 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
as a 7"? I bought that from her as a 3" CD.
― sleeve, Friday, 30 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yep, as a 7"
― original bgm, Saturday, 31 October 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Went to see her play on Friday night. It was pleasant if unremarkable, she only played for 40 minutes too.
― Number None, Sunday, 1 November 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't get that complaint. Forty minutes is a perfectly reasonable amount of time for a set, imo.
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 1 November 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
if you only have 1 album and only charge a fiver then maybe
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 1 November 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasn't really a complaint, more of an observation. It was actually a double headline show with some noise dude, tickets were 12.50. It was BYOB though so worked out cheap enough.
― Number None, Sunday, 1 November 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
doesn't she have three albums?
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Sunday, 1 November 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Has a Grouper / Julianna Barwick tour happened yet? Seriously would be an awesome double bill.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 1 November 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Great live set from London in Nov 2009 available to download free here: http://milesofsmiles.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=548002
― Barnaby, Hardly, Friday, 12 February 2010 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if this dude ever interviewed grouper
― tza tziki sauce (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 February 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I missed this news:
Grouper to release two new albumshttp://www.factmag.com/2011/01/21/grouper-to-release-two-new-albums/
“The process of making these albums reacquainted me with what I want to explore in music,” she continues. “Friction, exploration of something large and outside of me, describing and traveling to intangible objects and places, unseen movements and connections between people and spaces. Songs that move on their own, that have an autonomous monstrous quality, songs from another world.”
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 24 January 2011 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
A I A, TWO PART VINYL, SELF RELEASE, APRIL 11th, 2011. Vinyl can be ordered through Mississippi Records, digital downloads will be available as of the 4/11/2011. CONSISTS OF: -DREAM LOSS, FULL LENGTH 12", GR-006A. -ALIEN OBSERVER, FULL LENGTH 12", GR-006B.**Mississippi is no longer taking orders for this. If folks are still wanting vinyl (digital will be widely available, I have a direct agreement with a distributor) this summer than will repress**
aw man. i hope this is gonna be in stores, and stuff, on wax.
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Friday, 25 March 2011 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
ahhhhhhh annoying
― 69, Friday, 25 March 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
sux
― original bgm, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I like that she's releasing the stuff on FLAC. I won't pay for mp3s, and the vinyl is just too hard to get a hold of.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
she is actually really righteous about re-pressing her LPs, which seems kinda unusual now. like i saw her a while back and was psyched to pickup dragging a deer ..., which i'd figured was one of those things i'd never get because i slept on it in the first place. there's a note inside saying it's pressing three. so it's cool that the vinyl is gettable and isn't going to disappear. hopefully some of this has been ordered by stores, anyhow, i can't really tell.
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Saturday, 26 March 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Samples up on Amazon...
Dream Losshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004TPTL0W/
Alien Observerhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004TPTNTG/
― Barnaby, Hardly, Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a funny group to listen to samples of.
― j., Sunday, 27 March 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"group"
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Sunday, 27 March 2011 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
er...
― larry buttz (Z S), Sunday, 27 March 2011 06:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yknow. them all. with the name. the entity.
― j., Sunday, 27 March 2011 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
FUCK. I have a decent amount of Grouper vinyl but failed to get paid in time.
― the worst dong of the last ten years (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 27 March 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I emailed Mississippi a few weeks ago, and no fucking reply. Fuck them and their shadow way of doing things.
― van smack, Sunday, 27 March 2011 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
another ltd release ive missed out on by grouper. At least I got the early ones i suppose but this is annoying
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 27 March 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
hoping this shows up on some distros
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Sunday, 27 March 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
bummed that i can't order it, but...
can we talk about how awesome this release is going to be, musically?
― larry buttz (Z S), Sunday, 27 March 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
^ a good example of why buying vinyl sucks
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 28 March 2011 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
eh, same thing would happen if she pressed a stupidly limited amount of cds
― original bgm, Monday, 28 March 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
there is a newie that is up on pitchfork that i can't listen to because i'm at work; thought getting someone here to describe it would be a worthwhile exercise, what with her music lending itself to extravagant prose. would also like to hear reviews of what one can deduce about her new lp based on thirty second low quality samples.
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuck you, Mississippi
― van smack, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i mailed mississippi to ask whether any of these were going out anywhere, and they said yes: small quantities going to Forced Exposure, Revolver, CTD, Thrill Jockey, Reckless, Fusetron, Aquarius and Boomkat. so hopefully there should be a shot at picking some up in stores or online in advance. see, they are cool guys.
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone seen her recently? she's playing here next saturday
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
There'll be a re-press in the summer.
― plazzTT, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link