a r t i s t : Grouper
t i t l e : He Knows, He Knows, He Knows
d a t e : 2009
l a b e l : Yellow Electric
c a t : n/a
s o u r c e : Vinyl
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Jul/2009
t r a c k s : 03
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 12,2 MB
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Originally released as a limited Collective Jyrk CD-R in 2006,
He Knows He Knows He Knows arrived in between Grouper's
breakthrough album release, Way Their Crept and its
full-length follow-up, Wide. Now re-released on a strictly
limited self made vinyl pressing, this three-track EP revisits
Liz Harris' in one of her most mesmerising appearances. The
first song (titled 'He Knows') takes a miasmic swirl of
Harris' vocals and punctuates the serenity with surges of
delay feedback, almost resembling the kind of saturation
effects you might hear in dub production. It's as if a barely
suppressed malevolent energy is constantly trying to break
through that wall of Arvo Part-like choral piety. B1 (also
titled 'He Knows') might be the finest of the three entries
here, probably most closely resembling the more evolved
dynamics of her present day output. The tape loop reflections
of Harris' voice sound oddly like ripples on a pond, while
muggy guitar twangs impose the sort of structured melodies
that would come to inform later Grouper releases like Cover
The Windows And The Walls. Finally, on B2 (that's right, it's
called 'He Knows') Harris launches into a more tightly
structured, looped and layered piece reinstating the sort of
pseudo-ecclesiastical purity that was sabotaged back on the
A-side.
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01-He Knows [05:04]
02-He Knows [03:07]
03-He Knows [01:56]
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10:07 min