{"id":846177,"date":"2026-08-04T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846177\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:00:10","slug":"groupers-liz-harris-reunites-her-shoegaze-band-helen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846177\/","title":{"rendered":"Grouper\u2019s Liz Harris Reunites Her Shoegaze Band Helen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/33123-helen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helen<\/a>, the shoegaze trio of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/6134-grouper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grouper<\/a>\u2019s Liz Harris, bassist Scott Simmons, and drummer Jed Bindeman, have announced their first album in over a decade. <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/grouper.bandcamp.com\/album\/lindas-head\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/grouper.bandcamp.com\/album\/lindas-head&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/grouper.bandcamp.com\/album\/lindas-head\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linda\u2019s Head<\/a> arrives October 2 via <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/kranky.net\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/kranky.net\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/kranky.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kranky<\/a>\u201411 years after the band\u2019s lone studio LP, 2015\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/20962-the-original-faces\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Original Faces<\/a>. Below, hear two songs from the album\u2014the title track and \u201cDead Shark II\u201d\u2014and check out the cover art.<\/p>\n<p>The last grouper album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/grouper-shade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shade<\/a>, came out in 2021. This September, Harris will play a <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/grouper-lines-up-mini-us-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mini-tour<\/a> of six shows across the U.S. and Canada, with dates in Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Kingston, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Revisit the review of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/20962-the-original-faces\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Original Faces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Linda\u2019s Head:<br \/>01 Faraway<br \/>02 Starline<br \/>03 Endless Sky<br \/>04 Linda\u2019s Head<br \/>05 Darkblue<br \/>06 Dead Shark<br \/>07 Dead Shark II<br \/>08 Black and Quiet Love<br \/>09 Stay With Me<br \/>10 Canyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helen, the shoegaze trio of Grouper\u2019s Liz Harris, bassist Scott Simmons, and drummer Jed Bindeman, have announced their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[328,49,48,361,75,3504],"class_list":["post-846177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-audio","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}