Grouper – Shade [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Step-Forward Records

Step-Forward Records

This spectacle-free album delivers abrasive-adjacent electronic judders cloaked in a feeling of intimacy distilled from primordial ooze

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Grouper – Shade [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Step-Forward Records"The 12th full length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning fifteen years. She characterizes Shade as an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally. How one frames themselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames themselves; memories and experiences carried forward mapping a connection to placean ode to blue what lives in shade. Songs touch on loss, flaws, hiding places, love. Deep