Ruins is Harris' first set of new song-based recordings since that breakthrough six years ago. (Last year's The Man Who Died in His Boat was assembled from the same recording sessions as Dragging, and ...

Portland-based artist Liz Harris, aka Grouper, will follow last year's haunting The Man Who Died in His Boat with a new album Ruins, slated for an October 31st release on Kranky (see the cover art ...

Grouper, aka Liz Harris, has shared a new song called "Call Across Rooms". It'll appear on the forthcoming Ruins, which is out October 31 via Kranky. Listen to it above, via Vogue. "The song is on one ...

Long-running experimental musician Grouper (a.k.a. Liz Harris) revisited some old material with last year's The Man Who Died in a Boat LP. This fall, she'll offer up a proper follow-up album. The ...

Grouper (aka Liz Harris) hasn’t released a full-length album since 2014’s excellent Ruins, but she hasn’t been completely quiet. She put out a very good two-song 7″ in 2016, and last summer she gifted ...

In one of the internet’s many corners, the phenomena of “ruin porn” has been a rather large movement within photography in recent years. Essentially it focuses on the documentation of urban decay, ...

Ruins was made in Aljezur, Portugal in 2011 on a residency set up by Galeria Zé dos Bois. I recorded everything there except the last song, which I did at mother's house in 2004. Iʼm still surprised ...

Recorded with Liz Harris' voice, a piano and not much else, Ruins achieves striking intimacy, its emotional heft commanding attention throughout. Nothing is more intimate than the human voice, and few ...

When Liz Harris says she made her 10th album “pretty simply”, the Portland native is actually playing things down. These eight tracks feature little but voice, piano and tape hiss; and if it weren’t ...