Grouper – Ruins

Label: Kranky
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 98 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
01 Made of Metal
02 Clearing
03 Call Across Rooms
04 Labyrinth
05 Lighthouse
06 Holofernes
07 Holding
08 Made of Air

Liz Harris, aka Grouper, has announced a new album called Ruins. It’ll be out on October 31 via Kranky, and follows last year’s The Man Who Died in His Boat. She also shared a statement about the album, which she says was made mostly in 2011, except for one song recorded in 2004.

She wrote:

“Ruins was made in Aljezur, Portugal in 2011 on a residency set up by Galeria Zé dos Bois. I recorded everything there except the last song, which I did at mother’s house in 2004. Iʼm still surprised by what I wound up with. It was the first time Iʼd sat still for a few years; processed a lot of political anger and emotional garbage. Recorded pretty simply, with a portable 4-track, Sony stereo mic and an upright piano. When I wasnʼt recording songs I was hiking several miles to the beach. The path wound through the ruins of several old estates and a small village.

The album is a document. A nod to that daily walk. Failed structures. Living in the remains of love. I left the songs the way they came (microwave beep from when power went out after a storm); I hope that the album bears some resemblance to the place that I was in.”