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| Thu 5/15/08 |
New York, NY |
Participant, Inc. |
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| Tue 7/8/08 |
Washington, DC |
The Rock and Roll Hotel |
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| Thu 7/10/08 |
Philadelphia, PA |
First Unitarian Church |
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| Mon 7/14/08 |
Cambridge, MA |
Middle East Downstairs |
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| Tue 7/15/08 |
Montreal, QC |
La Sala Rossa |
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| Wed 7/16/08 |
Toronto, ON |
Horseshoe Tavern |
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| Thu 7/17/08 |
Pontiac, MI |
Eagle Theatre |
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| Sun 7/20/08 |
Chicago, IL |
Pitchfork Festival |
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| ! Supporting No Age |
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| It's
not that Brooklyn's High Places remind me of a lot of things
I like already -- minimal, bleary indie pop like Beat Happening
or Young Marble Giants; subaqueous psychedelia from Ricardo
Villalobos to Martin Denny exotica; girlish nursery-rhyme vocals;
New York City; heavy syncopation; pentatonic scales; kissing
-- it's that I usually only get to have them all together when
I'm dreaming. High Places sing about dreaming. They sing about
dreaming and evolution and writing letters -- to Mars, I think!
-- and even though they sing about the haze of falling in love
on "Head Spins", the closest they come to sex is watching
hermaphroditic banana slugs swap sperm while clouds roll overhead.
This all happens in about nine minutes. Sure, they have a handful
of other songs that they play live, but High Places are a relatively
small, embryonic band, literally and metaphorically. There are
only two members, Rob Barber and Mary Pearson. They clink on
glasses and hit hand drums and adorn them with spare guitar
figures before sending everything through basic effects processors.
- Mike Powell/Pitchfork.com |
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Mistletonia
Compilation
Mistletone Records
2007 |
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