Grouper
Who:
Grouper
When:
Sat Mar 7, 8pm
Where:
The Judith Wright Centre, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
How much:
$15 + BF
Picture this: you're tired, cold, lying on the floor, feeling totally alone in your personal world of misery. Then through the wall you hear your neighbour strumming an acoustic guitar, her muted, beautiful vocals soaring unintelligibly - a song you've never heard yet sounds instantly familiar. And suddenly you're all warm inside.
Liz Harris, aka Grouper, knows that melancholy can be comforting, and sometimes bleak is beautiful. Hailing from rainy, cosy Portland, Oregon, she creates rich, mysterious, reverb-drenched folk. Her music's soft-spoken beauty holds reference points in Cat Power or Beach House, but without the egomania of the former, or the bombast of the latter. Unlike many of her contemporaries in low-fi folk/field recording, Liz Harris doesn't just craft a hazy, cryptic mystique to enshroud lackluster songs.
Grouper's music is immediately memorable, and likeable; hell, 'Heavy Water' is downright catchy, sounding like a more ballsy side to Bon Iver.
Release: Live
To Cure: A broken heart
Keywords: Judith Wright Centre, Folk, Acoustic
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