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- Summary: The alternative rock duo's third studio album was recorded at its Los Angeles home.
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Oct 7, 2011On the beautifully airy Original Colors, the ambient pair seem weary of making a good impression.
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Oct 7, 2011High Places' third album finds the duo of Rob Barber and Mary Pearson all the more comfortable and assured in a realm of moody electronic pop for the 21st century, at once drawing on familiar roots and putting distinct, enjoyable spins on the results.
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UncutNov 23, 2011Primal yet precise, these obliques beats and blocky grooves loom out of the lush ambient foliage like the crown of a Mayan temple in the Yucatan jungle. [Dec 2011, p.87]
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Oct 11, 2011So while High Places have neatly avoided getting stuck in a rut on Original Colors, daring to reinvent themselves into a more motion-friendly group, fans of their first couple of albums should still find the overall mood sufficiently low-key to provide easy access.
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Oct 7, 2011High Places v. Mankind, took just criticism for being a run-of-the-mill indie record with no charisma, Original Colors is a more than respectable rebound.
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Nov 2, 2011There is also a notably darker, murkier imperative at the heart of Original Colours and the results are sometimes a little introverted.
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Oct 13, 2011Ultimately, High Places have succeeded in doing something that, on paper, seems an impossibility: they've managed to make an album that is undeniably focused around rhythms sound like an absolute slog.
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