Grouper – Shade

The 12th full-length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning fifteen years. She characterizes Shade as an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally.

How one frames themselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames themselves; memories and experiences carried forward mapping a connection to place — ‘an ode to blue / what lives in shade.’ Songs touch on loss, flaws, hiding places, love. Deep connections to the Bay Area, and the North Coast, with its unique moods of solitude, beauty, and isolation — a place described and transformed by the chaos and power of rivermouth, wild maritime storms, columns of mist that rise up unexpectedly on the road at night.

Tracklist

A1 Followed The Ocean
A2 Unclean Mind
A3 Ode To The Blue
A4 Pale Interior
A5 Disordered Minds
B1 The Way Her Hair Falls
B2 Promise
B3 Basement Mix
B4 Kelso (Blue Sky)