High Places
Organic Electro-Pop's Future By T. Cole RachelUnexpectedly warm records that sound like what trees and animals would make if they could use samplers and operate laptops
Despite the fact that they make what is ostensibly electronic music, there is something remarkably natural and earthy about the music of High Places. The duo of Rob Barber and Mary Pearson have been making music together since 2006, but it wasn't until 2008 and tours with the likes of No Age and Deerhunter that things for High Places really started to take off. Part of the band's appeal stems from the wonderful naivety of it's songs. Early singles like "Head Spins" and "Banana Slugs" are about subjects as simple as nature, the inexplicable universe, or Pearson's two cats ("Cosmonaut" and "Granola", respectively). While High Places' lyrics might explore ideas both miniscule and gargantuan in a very childlike way, the music is anything but simple. Tracks are built up in countless layers and feature a variety of unusual percussive elements and indecipherable synth effects. While many of their electro-pop peers are using similar means to produce music that is jokingly ironic or icily detached, High Places manage to use technology to produce something absolutely natural in the truest sense of the word.
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