Artwork for Grouper's A/A

Artwork for the Japan recovery compilation album.

After a three year semi- hiatus, the very wonderful Grouper (aka Liz Harris) returns in spectacular style next week with the vinyl and digital download release of a double album (A/A)  on Monday, April 11th.  The titles of the two discs are  Dream Loss and Alien Observer.

In an interview for Pitchfork she says that “Dream Loss is a collection of older songs, mostly written before a hard time. Alien Observer, for the most part, is made of songs recorded after that time”.

If you can’t wait that long to hear something new from her, you will find one track – Cassiopeia (3:22)  on the Thrill Jockey compilation Benefit for the recovery in Japan .

$15 will get you sixty-four artists from around the world and  nearly five hours of music. Most importantly of all,  100% of the proceeds from the sale of this brilliant collection will go directly towards the recovery and relief effort after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

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