Grouper, Félicia Atkinson

Grouper (US)

Harris’ first album was 2005’s Grouper, a self-released full-length CD-R, followed later that year by Way Their Crept on Free Porcupine (re-released in 2007 on Type Records). Other recordings include 2006’s He Knows, released as a 3” CD, the 12” Weird Forest release Wide in 2007, and a 7” called Tried.

She released a collaboration album with Xiu Xiu in 2006, entitled Creepshow, as well as contributing a remix of “Tonite & Today” to 2007’s Remixed & Covered compilation.

Harris released her third full-length album, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, in 2008. Stereogum’s Outsiders column included Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill in their Best LP’s of 2008, and Gorilla vs. Bear ranked the album #2 of the year, noting that “2008 was a banner year for hazy, ethereal dream-pop (see Beach House, Fight Bite, High Places, School of Seven Bells, Chairlift, etc.), with Grouper’s devastatingly beautiful Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill firmly implanting itself at the pinnacle of the broad genre.” It featured at number 37 of Pitchfork Media’s 50 Best Albums of 2008 – a previous review on the site praised the album as “druggy and sexy and arty and pretty”. A review on Drowned in Sound called it “deeply meditative, almost spiritual… one of the most delicate, affecting albums of the year”.

Félicia Atkinson / Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier (FR-BE)

Félicia Atkinson was born in 1981 and currently lives for her art and music between Brussels and Paris. She has released records under her name and the moniker Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier with different labels such as Spekk, Hibernate, Kaugummi, Digitalis and Stunned, to name a few. Her music is often improvised and inspired by a belief in the invisible, her travels, her walks, movies and books she comes across, as well as her night visions.

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