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- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: Thrill Jockey
High Places take another strange, uncannily beautiful step forward
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We Say...
In the Ozu film I Was Born, But… a young boy gets angry at what he perceives to be his father's lack of dignity, ignoring him out of shame for weeks. Its title is an expression of regret, a longing for a do-over. In the new High Places single "I Was Born," over an instrumental bed that sounds like it could have, in fact, been lifted from an Ozu film, Mary Pearson moans, "I try to listen, but my head is screaming, 'I was born!'" Here, the phrase is an expression of terror and wonder and apprehension, and its meaning takes on new colors every time Pearson invokes it. The song is a strange step forward for the group — it's darker and more ominous than anything on their debut, weird detuned synths wrapping themselves around a tough, throbbing rhythm. This is goosebump music: pensive, peculiar beds of sound that conjure a midnight boat ride down a snaking river in the far east, the forest full of strange shadows.
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