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From the very first second, it is clear that something special is happening. The way Grouper’s voice, threaded with a processed tremor, stretches into evenly rolling loops across an endless horizontal plane is immediately absorbing. Way Their Crept marks the first album by the US artist Liz Harris, released in 2005, and already establishes the definitive blueprint for her sound. Since then, she has been regarded as a key figure of the indistinct, the blurred and the fluid – an antithesis to many other lo-fi folk artists, because she disregards classical song structures and treats the studio itself as an instrument.

Of course, Harris’ discography also includes more conventional folk songs, such as »Ode To The Blue« from the 2021 album Shade. Yet her fundamental artistic signature remains crooked, full of detours and disorientation. Although only »Close Cloak« exceeds the eight-minute mark, every track on this reissue is capable of throwing one’s sense of space and time off balance.

Minimal oscillations, distant mantras, unfathomable psychedelia winding pantheistically through the woods. The minutes pass – no more than 41 – and yet one finds oneself fishing blindly in murky waters, where echoes of Americana, folk rock and ambient gently coagulate into an amalgam of transience. Whether Grouper’s lyrics already contain great poetry was not yet fully discernible on her debut. That a new artistic era is being ushered in here, however, is much harder to deny. — (via HHV Magazine)

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Way Their Crept was the first release from my YELLOWELECTRIC label, in November of 2005, and my first album/published record. It was originally released as a handful of handmade CDRs, and later made available by Free Porcupine on CD, and Type on vinyl. The album is available on vinyl again as of its 20th birthday, November 2025 on Kranky. Original mastering intact. This digital download will include the bonus track "Untitled" formerly only available on the second vinyl edition on Type as of the vinyl release date in November 2025. — (via Label)

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Vinyl Tracklist    
A1 Way Their Crept
A2 Hold A Desert, Feel Its Hand
A3 Second Skin / Zombie Wind
A4 Sang Their Way
A5 Black Out
A6 Adorned
B1 Close Cloak
B2 Second Wind / Zombie Skin
B3 Where It Goes
B4 Untitled

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Label: Kranky
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Reissued: 2025 / Originally Released: 2007
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Experimental, Ambient

File under: Ambient // Experimental // IDM
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