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Tall Heights with Slow Corpse

Sony artists Tall Heights with opener Slow Corpse
9:00pm | Ages 21+

"Intimate and arresting" -NPR

"There have been many bands in recent years that have employed beautiful close harmonies, but when you add the strings and the great songwriting, Tall Heights is a notch above the pack." -WBEZ

"Call it simply gorgeous." -WFUV

Getting there is half the fun, as the old saying goes, but the journey is really the whole point for Boston progressive-folk duo Tall Heights. Singer/guitarist Tim Harrington and singer/cellist Paul Wright know where theyve been, and where they want to go. As for the route, well, were just mapping it out as we take it, day by day, says Harrington. Theyve reached their biggest junction so far Neptune, due August 19, is Tall Heights first album for Sony Music Masterworks, and the latest step in the ongoing evolution of their sound and style. Harrington and Wright formed Tall Heights in 2010, keeping their songs stripped down to their essential elements, in part, to make it simpler to perform on the streets of Boston. Neptune is a far lusher construct: along with pristine and emotive vocal harmonies, theres subtly chugging electric guitar and a spare descending bassline on Iron in the Fire, ethereal synthesizers and a spacious drum part on Spirit Cold, a brittle splash of percussion to open Backwards and Forwards and feedback created by two cellphones on Cross My Mind. It was helpful and I think comforting to define ourselves as two vocalists, guitar and cello, Wright says. There was a beauty and a simplicity, and stepping outside of that box is pretty scary, because you're forced to redefine yourself and do some sonic soul-searching. I think this record reflects the results of that scary step."