GROUPER "Way Their Crept" --- CONTACT

Getting lots of play around my house

i love the new-not-new one! much more than the dual A I A releases tbh

yeah those left me cold compared to Dead Deer, haven't heard this "new" one. Are there Soundcloud samples or anything?

I think there are. I'm on the phone so I can't really search. But if you liked D a D D up the hill you'll definitely like it.

i like this one a lot!

Can't wait to pick it up, as well as that reissue.

I received this e-mail from Mississippi/Little Axe distro about two hours ago. Of interest to those who do not want to be eBay gouged...they are all still there now.

Hi there - I discovered a few boxes of several Grouper titles that are currently out of print. There is a limit of 1 of each item for this stuff and please don't just buy it to flip on ebay or discogs. They will be added to the website this afternoon and come down as soon as the copies are gone.

The available titles will be:

Grouper - Sleep $15
Grouper - Visitor $14
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer (self-released 3rd Pressing) $15

http://littleaxerecords.weebly.com/distributed-titles.html

thanks for the head's up. just ordered sleep + visitor. also listened to the sample from the Barna Howard on the same page and it sounds great. threw that one in the basket as well.

I can't really justify picking these up right now, & there is a bunch of grouper stuff I still haven't got (never had that connective moment with the first record, seeing it in the store makes me want it), but buying grouper records is totally sensible behaviour; I play them way more often than probably anything else I own because they're just such a good environmental contribution to a living space. I don't even mean, wow, nice background music; just that I want to hear them more & more flexibly than I want to put on other lps.

ooh, there's an interesting roy montgomery album up there as well! thanks!

her sparse, rhodesy work on her side of her montgomery split is really special

jeez I need to get on that mailing list! I kinda know the Little Axe folks. Thanks for the heads up, I ordered a bunch of that stuff.

this is an incredible song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnejbIBLGTg

man, mirroring are playing a show in london in a couple of weeks. i would like to see those guys.

whoa, been avoiding this stuff for some reason but that track is gorgeous. Whole album like that? The stuff I heard from that Dead Deer album was a tad droney / aimless for my tastes, and I can only take so much of that post-4AD, post-Fursaxa type stuff. But that Youtube clip has me wanting to hear this new-not-new one.

sort of, lots of droney stuff but at least half of the record is acoustic songs like Living Room. all excellent

Can't find a copy of The Man Who Died In His Boat anywhere :(

kranky's mail order is nicely affordable, fwiw

they're outta the vinyl though

Try discogs. There's two sealed copies on sale right now, one for $13.99, the other for $16.99

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=519536&ev=mb

oh, shit, those were CDs. sorry! there's a few LPs on sale through discogs too, but at a higher price.

little ax maybs worth a shot too ida thought

Nah I don't see it there either. Worried it went out of print, but I'm hoping they're just trying to catch back up to demand on production.

they'll make more re best new music

from the Kranky website:

just to be clear, these two releases will NOT be limited on vinyl and they will remain in print, so please remain calm and you will get as many copies as you like in short order.

I'm looking for the place the spirit meets the skin
can't figure out why that places feels so hard to be in
we're all of us at this ill-fitting party
busy pretending to relate
and it's getting harder and harder to fake
acting like everything's in its place

from the Kranky website:

just to be clear, these two releases will NOT be limited on vinyl and they will remain in print, so please remain calm and you will get as many copies as you like in short order.

― sleeve, Sunday, March 17, 2013 5:22 PM (1 hour ago)

Oh I missed that bit, thanks!

just got my records in from little axe. i ordered the "Sleep (fragment)" one-sided 12", plus the Visitor collaboration with Ilyas Ahmed.

"Sleep (Fragment)" is a long drone piece.

The Visitor record is pretty great! apparently they collaborated on all four of the tracks, but side A is definitely more Grouper-y and side B sounds more like Ilyas Ahmed is taking the lead.

I got the "Sleep" record from them too, I like it.

btw I have also seen restocked LP copies of The Man Who Died In His Boat appear on an update or two.

Through Kranky you mean?

I assume so, my Wall Of Sound update said "back in stock"

i have been listening back to alien observer lately. such a strange record. so pretty but so swampy. like it has such weight to it. the guitars are like those folk tale tree limbs that are grabbing at everything else on the record. i feel like one day i will be in the perfect mood for it & it will blow me away.

For me, the only time for those AIA records is after 1am. When everyone else is quiet. And they are lovely then.

that sounds like the right way to listen, I have not clicked with those yet.

Really wish Grouper wasn't onstage at 5.30pm at the Swans London gig tonight.

it's a helluva time for a thursday, i'm wondering if anyone but me will be there.

i saw mirrorring live last week, exactly what you'd expect and utterly gorgeous.

Early start is probably a good thing, get up there before the noisy chatterboxes arrive

aw man, i saw a picture of the mirroring show. what was it like? they just played some album songs w/some drones goin on?

I've had Way Their Crept since its release but didn't know what to make it exactly. Now listening to her entire oeuvre on Spotify, I like it in part because I probably prefer her at her most echo-laden and abstract.

Despite liking Dragging a Deer Head, to me the song structures feel a bit less unique. Still, I like that she explores a few different sides to her thing.

it would be so awesome if we could get this thread title changed

it's the little things, sometimes, and i truly feel that if i could convince someone to change the title of the thread, the terrible rating of the world would decrease by at least 1

Did that help?

Meantime, there's a new mix from her up at FACT

http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/22/fact-mix-379-grouper/

I like the cryptic thread title!

Can't please everyone.

I wish Grouper had been on 3-2-1 Contact.

oh wow she is playing in austin soon! in a church!

her music is so beautiful it feels like god's joke

saw her play tonight! it was dreamy and spooky and out of this world

http://elbo.ws/video/30846604/