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Grid of Points

by Grouper

Grid of Points is a 2018 ambient album by Grouper. It runs 7 tracks across 22 minutes on Kranky. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.5/5 from 1 rating.

Ambient · Ambient Pop · Singer-Songwriter

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22 min
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117 bpm
Tempo
C major
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    Uma continuação direta ao seu álbum anterior, mas de certa forma com uma mentalidade bem diferente. Acordes de piano ermos e minimalistas tocados junto a vocais etéreos e sussurantes com uma boa dose de reverb adicionado a eles, esses são os mesmos elementos presentes em "Ruins", mas enquanto o álbum anterior estava quase afogado em sua própria solidão, soando como se fosse gravado em um quarto de onde a pessoa não saiu por três semanas seguidas, "Grid of Points" tem um som mais "aberto", aonde aquela solidão se espalha num torrente de emoções fantasmagórica - ermo, esparso e solitário, mas menos obscurecido e preenchido com emoções mais etéreas e cristalinas. " Grid of Points" é devastador em sua própria brevidade, 22 minutos de duração te dão oportunidade para prestar atenção nos detalhes específicos de cada canção - o piano assustador e a impactante interpretação vocal de "Birthday Song", que quase soa "épica" e "grandiosa" (algo extremamente raro para uma canção de Grouper), os suspiros em "Parking Lot", etc. O álbum é de alguma forma muito curto, mas exatamente do tamanho que deveria ser, é completo como um final de semana solitário, que mesmo não tendo acontecido nada, você percorreu sua mente totalmente várias e várias vezes, enquanto se banqueteia de sua solidão, assustadora, mas amigável. Grouper construir algo liberador através do puro poder do silência, ela se tornou mestre em uma combinação de silênca e notas mínimas. Se "Ruins" era o álbum de "sentar estaticamente na sua cama no escura as 4 da manhã encarando o nada enquanto você se sente desesperançosamente vazio e torpe", "Grid of Points" é o o álbum "dando uma volta no parque as 5 da tarde encarando as árvores enquanto você se sente um pouco menos desesperançoso, mas sem dúvidas melancólico e sozinho". A gravação do trem no final da última faixa apenas te puxa de volta do seu transe, te lembrando que sua caminhada acabou e é hora de voltar a realidade, apenas para te fazer sentir compelido de dar aquela mesma volta de novo. // A direct continuation to her previous album sound, but somehow on a very different mindset. Minimalistic bleak piano chords played along a very whispery and ethereal vocal delivery and tons of reverb added to it, those are the same elements, but while "Ruins" was almost drowned on its own loneliness, sounding like it was recorded from a room where the person hasn't been out for three weeks in a row, "Grid of Points" has a more "open" sound, where that loneliness spreads it out into a ghostly torrent of emotions - bleak, sparse and solitary, but less static and more filled with ethereal and crystalline emotions. "Grid of Points" is devastating on its own brevity, being 22 minutes long gives you time to pay attention to each song specific details, the creepy piano-playing and gut-wrenching vocal delivery on "Birthday Song", which almost sounds epic and soaring, the sighs on "Parking Lot", etc. The album is somehow too short, but exactly the length it's supposed to be, it's complete like a lonely weekend, that despite not much happening, you went through your head back and forth several times while feisting on your own scary but friendly loneliness. Grouper constructed something liberating trough the sheer power of silence, she mastered her combination of silence and minimal notes, if "Ruins" was the "sitting statically on your bed in the dark at 4am gazing at nothing while you feel hopelessly empty and numb" album, this is the "taking a walk in the park at 5pm gazing the trees while you feel slightly less hopeless but nonetheless melancholic" album, the train recording at the end of the last track just pulls you back from your trance, reminding you that your walk is over and it's time to return to reality, only to make you feel compelled to take that same walk again.

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"Grid of Points" is the eleventh studio album by Grouper, the stage name of American musician Liz Harris. It was released on April 27th, 2018 on the Kranky label. Upon its release, Grid of Points received critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album holds an average score of 83, indicating "Universal acclaim ", based on 16 reviews.

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Is Grid of Points good?
Riffiter listeners rate Grid of Points 4.5/5 from 1 rating.
When was Grid of Points released?
Grid of Points was released in 2018 on Kranky.
How many tracks are on Grid of Points?
Grid of Points has 7 tracks, with a runtime of 22 minutes.
What genre is Grid of Points?
Grid of Points is catalogued under Ambient, Ambient Pop, Singer-Songwriter.
What BPM is Grid of Points?
Grid of Points runs at a median tempo of 117 BPM across its tracks, most often in C major, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to Grid of Points?
Listeners of Grid of Points also rate An Imaginary Country by Tim Hecker, And Their Refinement of the Decline by Stars of the Lid, Melancholia by William Basinski.