Hailing from
the musical mecca that is Brooklyn, the High Highs are
native Australians that are just as characteristic of being
lowly as they are lofty. The three-piece outfit craft
delicate, dreamy pieces, and even with warm acoustics, you
can’t help but feel chilled. With bare instrumentation in
simple, steady tune, the trio’s songs are altogether
atmospheric in such a stark manner, but that’s not to say
their music is empty and void. In fact, their songs are
absolutely lush and gorgeous - wispy harmonies, warm
acoustics. Rather, when it comes to their music, what you’re
faced with surrounds you in the immediate, and everything
beyond what you can simply reach for is where the bare
stillness lies. In all of my abstract thinking, what I can
simply tell you is that what we’re dealt are beautiful
compositions - dreamy, fragile, enchanting. As summer turns
into a fleeting memory, these coming cooler days are
perfectly soundtracked to the High Highs, and it almost
seems divine providence that their first EP is set for
release this coming November.
- Brad Benedict
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