The 12th full length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning 15 years. She characterizes Shade as an album about respite and the coast poetically and literally. How we frame ourselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames ourselves memories and experiences carried forward mapping our connection to place. An ode to blue What lives in shade. Songs touch on loss, flaws, hiding places, love. Deep connections to the Bay Area, and the North Coast, with its ...