|

Click here to expand and collapse the player

Original Colors

Rate It! Avg: 4.0 (37 ratings)
Original Colors album cover
01
Year Off
4:29 $0.99
02
The Pull
4:31 $0.99
03
Morning Ritual
2:24 $0.99
04
Banksia
4:34 $0.99
05
Ahead Stop
3:33 $0.99
06
Dry Lake
4:49 $0.99
07
Sonora
4:06 $0.99
08
Sophia
4:41 $0.99
09
Twenty-Seven
1:38 $0.99
10
Altos Lugares
3:51 $0.99
Album Information

Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 38:36

Find a problem with a track? Let us know.

eMusic Review 0

Avatar Image
Marc Hogan

eMusic Contributor

Marc Hogan has been occasionally getting paid to write about music since 2003. His music writing has appeared, with enormously varying degrees of regularity, in...more »

10.11.11
Painting with a brand-new set of Crayolas
2011 | Label: Thrill Jockey

In the video for “Altos Lugares,” the spellbinding capper to High Places’ brave and bewitching third album, these eMusic Selects alums look like they’re fading away into the landscape. Which, if intentional, is a fantastic preview of Original Colors. The Los Angeles-via-Brooklyn duo of Michigan-reared bassoonist Mary Pearson and former Philly hardcore kid Rob Barber threw expectations out the window with 2010′s High Places vs. Mankind, which veered from the homespun found-sound patchworks, wispy schoolyard melodies and positive global vibes of their early records toward a moodier, more guitar-driven style. With Original Colors, they use that newfound freedom to dissolve their old selves even further. The result is an enigmatic but beguiling electronic swirl that floats Pearson’s lilting nature imagery amid Barker’s clubbiest home-studio beats yet. As aspects of High Places’ initial sound have bubbled up in the winsome indie-pop collages of Cults, the bold uke-nanny intimacy of tUnE-yArDs and the warped, disorienting wobble of Purity Ring, the O.G.s are painting with a brand-new set of Crayolas.

Write a Review 1 Member Review

Please register before you review a release. Register

user avatar

Great for an after party

theenddecay

Read our full review here: http://www.earbuddy.net/2011/10/high-places-original-colors-review.html

Recommended Albums

eMusic Features

0

Who Are…Peaking Lights

By Marc Hogan, eMusic Contributor

Indra Dunis and Aaron Coyes, the married duo behind Peaking Lights, say they plan to get "2011 tattoos." 2011 was the year they moved from Wisconsin, where she grew up, back to California, where he did, and where, up the coast in the San Francisco Bay Area, the two originally met. It's also the year Dunis and Coyes released Peaking Lights' breakout album, 936, welcomed their son, Mikko, into the world, and started recording their… more »

0

eMusic Selects: EULA

By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic Contributor

Since 2008, we've used our eMusic Selects program to spotlight our favorite unsigned bands, releasing their albums exclusively to eMusic members and giving you a first look at bands whose music and vision inspires us. We're proud to say that bands like Best Coast, High Places, Yellow Ostrich, Julianna Barwick and others are all graduates of our Selects program. We feel just as excited about the latest members of our Selects family, EULA. This band… more »

0

eMusic Selects: High Places

By Yancey Strickler, eMusic Contributor

Mary Pearson and Rob Barber are High Places, a Brooklyn band so fantastic that they actually inspired the entire eMusic Selects program. Before their amazing, eMusic-only compilation 03/07 — 09/07, High Places had only released three 7-inches and a couple of compilation tracks. Still, that has been enough to earn them a growing following. Recently, Mary and Rob took a break from recording their debut album (it will be done the end of February, they hope)… more »

Activity

  • 05.24.13 I've had such a productive week, I even got caught up on my Facebook poking.
  • 05.23.13 Love me some @WeAreKoshka and this @SomethingElseAu tank! <33 http://t.co/Ck70cgs0NS
  • 05.16.13 The bed's too big, the frying pan's too wide
  • 05.16.13 Yay, Minnesota!!!!
  • 05.13.13 I haven't watched Bravo or E! in a couple weeks, and it's like I'm rediscovering areas of my mind I forgot existed.
  • 05.07.13 Yessss Delaware!!
  • 05.06.13 Very excited about my eloquent and sharp-witted sister @tislaurapearson ' s new writing at http://t.co/ztp7ywmJGf
  • 05.04.13 http://t.co/WoWKqvHmyK
  • 05.04.13 I dreamt one thousand basketball courts, Nothing holier than sports
  • 05.04.13 💔💔💔
  • 05.02.13 Los Angeles, we are playing Make Music Pasadena on June 1st and it's FREE! @inpasadena http://t.co/xyapu1ofcY
  • 05.02.13 Proud of Maryland for abolishing the death penalty! 18 states down, 32 to go. Oy vey.