High Places

On Tour

See all 50 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to High Places Radio, featuring artists like Lucky Dragons, Tickley Feather, Soft Circle, Peaking Lights and more…

• Search on Spotify

2,348,023 plays (154,825 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send High Places Ringtones to Cell

Buy

• Download
• Amazon
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

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.

Read more… Edit bio

Popular tags: experimental, psychedelic, folktronica, indie, psychedelic folk  See more

Share this artist:

• Tweet
• Send

Top Albums

• Original Colors
  High Places

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.99
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes $9.90
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $14.78
  • eBay Search
• High Places vs. Mankind
  High Places

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.99
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes $9.90
  • Buy Album
  • thrilljockey.com
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• S/T
  High Places

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes
  • Buy Album
  • thrilljockey.com $13.00
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• 03/07 - 09/07
  High Places

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search

Top Tracks

• Last Week
• Last 6 months

1		Year Off free download			288
2		From Stardust to Sentience free download			218
3		The Pull			199
4		On Giving Up free download			158
5		Morning Ritual			143
6		Banksia			131
7		Altos Lugares			127
8		Sonora			125
9		Dry Lake			121
10		The Storm			120
11		Ahead Stop			113
12		Sophia			109
13		Vision's The First...			108
14		The Tree With the Lights in It			107
14		You in Forty Years			107

Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3

See more