After Its Own Death / Walking in a Spiral Towards the House

Operating under a new moniker, Liz Harris (best known as Grouper) delivers a profoundly bleak, skeletal double album constructed primarily during artist residencies in Portugal and Russia. The record abandons traditional acoustic guitars for freezing synthesizer drones, heavily layered, wordless vocal choirs, and chilling field recordings. It is an overwhelmingly desolate, beautiful meditation on isolation and the inescapable presence of death.