The first High Places album (recently recommended here at The Music Lobby) induced visions of each track being laid down to tape on a separate sun-kissed Caribbean island, as it were, complete with a light breeze and circling tropical birds and locals helping out with the drum sounds, etc. Their second album sounds as if it was recorded in the middle of the night, in the duo's Brooklyn home. Darker, a bit more sinister, with more chord progressions and song structures than their earlier work, but still astonishingly inventive, playful, and thoroughly unique. My only complaint would be that the vocals are a bit washed out, and the darker shift in mood doesn't go perfectly well with their general aesthetic, but it's a very impressive effort nonetheless.

Style: Indie Rock

RIYL: Lau Nau, Atlas Sound

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2008  Atlas Sound  High Places  Indie Rock  Lau Nau  Thrill Jockey  playbynumbers 

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