Rob Barber and Mary Pearson might have started out trying to be the most un-New York sounding band in the city. But the duo's brand of highly rhythmic pyschedelia fits Williamsburg's grimey streets just fine. Giving electronic folk minimalism a rather lush and tropical treatment, High Places have issued three now out of print 7" inch singles. Look for a full length shortly. - David Pitz
"What High Places do is cuddly, but it's also anomalousdoe-eyed, highly rhythmic psychedelia built from layered glass clinking, wayward vocals, and echoed thuds of cardboard boxes and small drums. The approach is 21st-century computer-aided D.I.Y" - village voice "There's something more playful/less dire at heart, carefree melodies with a concerted infusion of pan-global sounds and percussive tics, from Polynesian, polyrhythmic steel drum sounds to laptop-enhanced tribal grooves. Songs like "Sandy Feat," "Head Spins," and the aforementioned "Cosmonaut" come off like a tropically situated Cox/Panda Bear cross-pollination, as fronted by the Belle Stars covering "Iko Iko." - stereogum "It's not that Brooklyn's High Places remind me of a lot of things I like already-- minimal, bleary indie pop like Beat Happening or Young Marble Giants; subaqueous psychedelia from Ricardo Villalobos to Martin Denny exotica; girlish nursery-rhyme vocals; New York City; heavy syncopation; pentatonic scales; kissing-- it's that I usually only get to have them all together when I'm dreaming." - pitchfork
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