Pitchfork

Like Creed used to do, Brooklyn boy-girl duo High Places can take you higher (that name's gotta be a pun, right?). This remix of High Places' "Golden" by Brenmar, aka These Are Powers drummer and electronics dude Bill Salas, might take you even higher-er-- why, higher than that twiddly guitar part in the middle of the chorus that is the sole redeeming attribute of Creed's "Higher". The version of "Golden" available on High Places' MySpace begins on an ambient note, swathed in more Panda Bear-like psychedelic atmospherics than most of the material on the group's 2007 self-titled EP, but a loopy tropical rhythm and Mary Pearson's girlish, twee-kid vocal eventually emerge from the mists of amorphous drones, electronic chirps, and pizzicato string plucks. Benmar's remix also starts with a low, blurry hum, but then for a time seems most interested in the bits of melody that were more submerged on the original. That pop move is just a pump fake, though, because soon enough Salas is chopping up Pearson's vocals and emphasizing the jumpy beats until they become something abstract, as well. Um, and just for the record, none of it sounds the slightest bit like Creed.

Stream:> High Places: "Golden (Brenmar Remix)"
[the High Places EP is out now (and sold out) on Ancient Almanac]