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High Places began as an experiment in collaboration: two people with diverse artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic tastes, and music-making approaches. 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. The result is an imaginative and spacious amalgamation of sounds with a unique, almost Caribbean undertone that is as immediate as it is refreshing.
Since their inception in 2006, High Places have honed their “exquisite corpse” style of songwriting, exchanging ideas back and forth, challenging one another’s expectations, pushing both performance and songs to new places, or more aptly, new heights. With each single, from “Head Spins” to “Sandy Feat” from “Greeting the Light” to “Granola” the band has revealed more complex elements within their layers be it in vocal texture, delicate melodic sense, or in new dimensions to their ever inventive and propulsive percussion.
Since their inception in 2006, High Places have honed their “exquisite corpse” style of songwriting, exchanging ideas back and forth, challenging one another’s expectations, pushing both performance and songs to new places, or more aptly, new heights. With each single, from “Head Spins” to “Sandy Feat” from “Greeting the Light” to “Granola” the band has revealed more complex elements within their layers be it in vocal texture, delicate melodic sense, or in new dimensions to their ever inventive and propulsive percussion.
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High Places vs. Mankind
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IWannaBeAdored wrote:
Love the new album!
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kwokwokwo wrote:
Вот она,вот онаааааа...
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Cox_of_Seagulls wrote:
I like vs. Mankind and Original Colors, but I really miss that hazy, dreamy fun sound that they had on their first two albums.
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SssSpchMpdmnts wrote:
I'm so High Places
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Lastsamuil wrote:
Can't stop listening to your awesome music!!! Love you guys! :)
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lambi1 wrote:
Saw them for the 4th time last night!
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oluagrey wrote:
о да)
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Cox_of_Seagulls wrote:
Gosh, a new album? Feels like vs. Mankind was only released yesterday.
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giobot26 wrote:
awesome show last night!!!!
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aydenizertunc wrote:
http://www.weartbeat.com/2011/11/video-high-places-sonora.html new video is great!!
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mythofsisyphus wrote:
Original Colors rules. 03/07-09/07 rules. S/T is pretty good. High Places vs. Mankind is good. Deal with it.
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amphibians wrote:
new album is great!
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Sonicjr01 wrote:
From Stardust to Sentience ... Short but Sweet
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Difuzija wrote:
i also hate RogerHuxley
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Difuzija wrote:
i hate it because RogerHuxley likes it
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Difuzija wrote:
fucking hating that new album, so RogerHuxley-like.
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RogerHuxley wrote:
fucking loving that new album, so tasty.
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no_conclusion wrote:
High Places made an awesome mix for No Conclusion Blog http://www.no-conclusion.com/2011/10/18/nc-guest-mix41-high-places/
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arthurleeisfree wrote:
Pitchfork is INSANELY powerful to making or breaking a band. Most other media sources just wait and copy Pitchfork's feed. I completely affects a band's abillity to tour, play festivals etc. Mr. Mocha, you agree with pitchfork, but as you can see on the comments here, they are not "right". Just one side of a coin that doesn't want to see this band try new things, and experiment, and honestly, I feel that this record is MASSIVELY improvement on the last.
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glogi wrote:
I think P4K hasn't got that power anymore. It's so easy now to predict their judgements that it starts to ve boring. I think they should refresh the crew to be worth reading again. That's my opinion
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Feb
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BE NOTHING PRESENTS: HIGH PLACES
The Green Door Store, Brighton, United Kingdom
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High Places
Green Door Store, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Feb
14
High Places
The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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News
Northampton MA!!!! CANCELLED!!! PEARL ST = BUMMER!!!
6 Feb 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/hellohighplaces
So if you were thinking of attending our show in Northampton
tonight we found out today that they decided to cancel it because
of what they felt were not enough pre-sale tickets.WTF??? Who buys
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