So High Places have a new video every month. And they decided to follow two really nice videos with a bloody revenge story. Hah! The video was directed by Keith Musil and it features Liars‘ Angus Andrew along with Mary and Rob. High Places’ Original Colors is out now on Thrill Jockey.
Highplace. By the way, have you listened to their guest mix?
We at No Conclusion know ALL about High Places. Unfortunately, we can’t share that knowledge with you. The footage of our detailed interview is now forever lost thanks to a really crappy recording. We kept them hostage in the backstage for an hour for nothing, and yet Mary and Rob were kind enough to put together a little something for our guest mix series. And boy are we glad they did!01. Invisible Conga People – Can’t Feel My Knees
02. Hype Williams – Warlord
03. K Alexi – Shelby
04. Silver Apples – Ocscillations
05. MKRNI – Humedad
06. Skinny Puppy – Tomorrow
07. Kamasutra – Running
08. Johnny Dynell & New York 88 – Jam Hot
09. Black Dice – Cone Toaster
10. Semya – Earthworm
11. Martyn – Miniluv
12. New Order – 5 8 6
13. Blawan – Bohla
14. Shannon – Give Me Tonight
15. Augustus Pablo - Blacka Black Dub
16. Lucky Dragons – No Reason
The band’s new album Original Colors is out now on Thrill Jockey. We’ve already posted both new videos. Because we like High Places. Can’t help it.
High online Places.
Here’s another sweet new High Places video directed by the band (choreographed and performed by Busy Gangnes of Telepathe). ‘Sophia’ is taken from High Places’ new album Original Colors, out today on Thrill Jockey. [via]
High Places blog.
Watch the new High Places video for ‘Altos Lugares’, one of the highlights from their new album. Mary and Rob shot the video “at dawn in Spahn Ranch, the one-time home base for Charles Manson and the Family”. Neat!
Original Colors is out October 11th on Thrill Jockey.
We loved High Places‘ slightly underrated sophomore LP, and here are some artists and shows HP’s Rob Barber loved this year.
> Tiny Vipers live
I am a maximalist. I over dub and mix everything I make, possibly to the extreme. I am totally obsessive-compulsive. It is an incredible experience to see Jesy totally fill a room with just her voice and an acoustic guitar. Tiny Vipers live makes me feel like I am hiding behind over-embellishment. She is the real deal.
> We Like Cats: Proper Eats EP
White Rainbow & Valet meet at Portland Dub station in a rub-a-dub stylee. Feline-centric Dub, Like chocolate and Peanut butter!!!
> Dunes 12″
You will totally know this band in a few months, trust me. They play LA a lot, and I never get tired of them. Beautiful and dreamy, watery and drippy pop.
> Todd P’s Monterrey Mexico festival
This man threw a festival that nobody would have ever dreamt of. He has a work ethic like nobody i have ever known. Yes, the fucked up US border police and drug cartel violence maybe made a bit tricky to attend this if you were coming from the US, but playing in a beautiful valley to REALLY excited Mexican kids, and getting to see all their bands play too, made this the festival of a lifetime for me!
> Tearist live
Stand back or you might get hit with a chunk of rusted steel. The most violently beautiful live experience ever.
> Sun Araw: On Patrol and live
Dubbed as heck, Drenched psyche. Again, LA rules.
> Zach Hill & Carson McWhirter live in Japan
Yes, playing after them every night was basically like getting on stage and lighting your farts with a match. They killed it. Super free-psyche overload.
> Ken Seeno & Dustin Wong‘s respective solo albums.
So when Ponytail stopped playing, I was really really sad. High Places toured the US with them and it blew my mind every night (see my Zach and Carson write-up above to see what I mean exactly). So imagine my pleasant surprise when we were last in Baltimore and the two guitar brains of Ponytail both gave me their new solo records! And they are so completely different and uniquely amazing that I couldn’t believe it. You always wonder what is next when a great band ends. Well expect to hear more from these dudes for sure! And with Jeremy drumming in the Boredoms, I think the legacy of Ponytail is doing great!!
> No Age
Three albums in and still killing it!!
> Former Ghosts
YET Another LA peep I get to see play a lot. I know he usually tours with other people, but alone, easily the heaviest solo dude ever.
Agree on that Former Ghosts comment. High Places’ blog/myspace.
In no particular order. Well, somewhat particular at least. Fever Ray made things easy in 2009, this year was more of a struggle. There was a lot of good records, but none that I really felt were leaps and bounds ahead of the others. Still, there were some that stood out. Joanna Newsom, for one, with her triple (!) LP (and without a track to spare) or Caribou’s Arthur Russell influenced LP. Two excellent minimal synth compilations were also on heavy rotation this year… And the list goes on. Here are some records we listened to the most this year.
Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
Darkstar: North
Caribou: Swim
Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma
Four Tet: There Is Love in You
Pantha du Prince: Black Noise
Future Islands: In Evening Air
Broken Water: Whet
Robyn: Body Talk
High Places: High Places vs. Mankind
Emeralds: Does it Look Like I’m Here?
Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles II
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
V/A: The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol.1/Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics Vol.1
SALEM: King Night
Tamaryn: The Waves
Teengirl Fantasy: 7 AM
These New Puritans: Hidden
Toro y Moi: Causers of This
Wild Nothing: Gemini
Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest
How to Dress Well: Love Remains
Mount Kimbie: Crooks and Lovers
Matthew Dear: Black City
Frank (just Frank): The Brutal Wave
Gonjasufi: A Sufi and a Killer
Grass Widow: Past Time
Roll the Dice: Roll the Dice
Autre Ne Veut: Autre Ne Veut
No Age: Everything in Between
Warpaint: The Fool
Geneva Jacuzzi: Lamaze
Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal
School of Seven Bells: Disconnect from Desire
Big Boi: Sir Luscious Left Foot the Son of Chico Dusty
Beach House: Teen Dream
Baths: Cerulean
John Roberts: Glass Eights
Loscil: Endless Falls
Actress: Splazsh
The Urxed is the moniker of High Places‘ Rob Barber, who just sent over this rad remix he made “for a (scrapped) Throwing Shade 12″ by Abe Vigoda“. Stream and/or download his version of ‘Throwing Shade’ below or at the Urxed’s Soundcloud page.
Throwing Shade (the Urxed remix)
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Myspaces – Abe Vigoda / the Urxed.
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High Places vs. Mankind is now available digitally and the CD/LP is due next week on Thrill Jockey. High Myspaces.
Except for the highly anticipated sophomore album High Places vs. Mankind, High Places are also releasing a new 12″ for Thrill Jockey’s Second Annual Singles Club series. The EP will feature the Halloween hit ‘I Was Born‘ and some new remixes. Can’t Feel Born 12″ is due out April 20th, here’s a track from it:
Can’t Feel Nothing (remix)
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High Spaces.
Here it is! A new High Places song! ‘On Giving Up’ will be on their forthcoming sophomore album. Also, it’s probably the first High Places song you could play in a club. We like.
High Places vs. Mankind is due March 16 on Thrill Jockey. High Places @ Myspace.
2010, Thrill JockeyFinally some details on the new High Places album! It’s entitled High Places vs. Mankind and drops March 16 on Thrill Jockey. There are no previews of the new songs yet, just the cover art and the tracklist. I hope some mp3 drops soon.
High Places My Spaces.
This is a fresh feature on the blog where, instead of just the regular monthly NC mixtapes, you can hear mixes that some of our favorite artists put together for us. This time it’s Transformation Surprise, the solo project of Mary Pearson from High Places.
Regarding the theme of the mixtape she says it’s “music that inspires my solo music by process and intent. This is the kind of stuff I listen to when my inspiration well is running a little dry.” Maybe you’ll find it inspiring too. Who’d have thought Underworld and Cat Power could go so well together?
NC GUEST MIX #2: TRANSFORMATION SURPRISE
01. Tom Waits – Hoist That Rag
02. Bow Ribbons – Let Me Down Easy
03. Underworld – Something Like A Mama
04. Cat Power – I Don’t Blame You
05. Portishead – Hunter
06. Buffy Sainte-Marie – He’s A Keeper Of The Fire
07. The Dead Weather – I Cut Like A Buffalo
08. Marnie Stern – Patterns Of A Diamond Ceiling
09. Broadcast – Tears In The Typing Pool
10. Violeta Parra – De Cuerpo Entero
She hopes to put a release together sometime in 2010 and she also might be doing a film score. We’ll keep you posted. Check her out at Myspace.
The band will also release another single and video and then release both new tracks on a 12″ ,with some remixes. “A new full-length set for release in the spring…” Alright!
Unrelated – that new split with Soft Circle is pretty rad. Get it here. The two also made this mixtape together for Vice.
Migh spaces.
