Grouper - Shade LP originally released on Tom Ellard's

originally released on Tom Ellard's (Severed Heads) Dogfood Production System in 1981

Now we're very happy to welcome into this rich pop tradition The Umbrellas

but upon release it was this summation of what was unfolding

𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢’𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗

Grouper - Shade LP originally released on Tom Ellard'sLP version. "The 12th full length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning fifteen years. She characterizes Shade as an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally. How one frames themselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames themselves; memories and experiences carried forward mapping a connection to place 'an ode to blue what lives in shade.' Songs touch on loss, flaws, hiding places,