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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.

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1	You in Forty Years	481
2	Vision's The First...	308
3	From Stardust to Sentience	307
4	The Storm	283
5	The Tree With the Lights in It	252
6	Shared Islands	235
7	Golden	226
8	Universe	216
9	Granola	215
10	Papaya Year	214
11	Greeting the Light	213
12	Namer	208
13	Freaked Flight (alternate version)	205
14	Gold Coin	204
15	A Field Guide	200

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Abood88 wrote:
Wednesday morning

Lol, OK, I'm a huge fan of AC, but let's not compare everything to them.

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mythofsisyphus wrote:
15 days ago

Please come to Knoxville.

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treedome wrote:
29 days ago

:-)

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Reincloudt wrote:
December 2009

It's amusing though.

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DayGlowwed wrote:
December 2009

Can tags be removed? Call me crazy, but "brutal death metal" doesn't really seem to fit this music.

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Reincloudt wrote:
December 2009

"High" places. I get it. Now?

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EatSleepFukFlee wrote:
November 2009

Mary is such a babe.

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MetalSabe wrote:
November 2009

Fun songs.

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no_conclusion wrote:
November 2009

Mary made a mixtape for No Conclusion, check it out here http://bit.ly/4vNJBi

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freefestival wrote:
November 2009

The Storm is great!

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milkcowmani wrote:
November 2009

Can they tour and come out with a new one like NOW?

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yr_dog wrote:
November 2009

ac is still worse

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EggToastKid wrote:
November 2009

Great is an understatement Anus my friend.

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Massive_Anus wrote:
November 2009

but still great

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Massive_Anus wrote:
November 2009

nothing like animal collective

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nejchi wrote:
November 2009

better than animal collective

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elegiak wrote:
November 2009

I was born is amazig.

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EggToastKid wrote:
October 2009

Their self-titled album is fucking incredible! Where has this band been my entire life?

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Tree-Fingers wrote:
October 2009

Here you go - http://pitchfork.com/news/36966-premiere-new-high-places-video/

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Celso wrote:
October 2009

Late Bloomer is cathartic...

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Mar 19 High Places Echoplex, Los Angeles, United States
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Mar 24 High Places Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco CA, United States
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Mar 27 Cymbals Eat Guitars Berbatis Pan, Portland, OR, Portland, United States
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unspeakablerx, aherr023, graciedoodle and 11 other people added High Places to their libraries. 2 hours ago
KerrieNicole tagged High Places with folktronica and experimental. Tuesday evening
Gretalouise and asspunch added High Places to their libraries. Tuesday morning
dildon added High Places to the lineup of High Places at The Crocodile. Tuesday morning
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