HIGH WATER MARKS - Ecstasy Rhymes LP

They're still at it and it's still fun, echoey, catchy, guitar heaven odes. Vocals that sound like a group of friends descending from the cafeteria.

“I am so lucky to have been a musician throughout my life,” says Hilarie Sidney of The High Water Marks, the band she fronts out of her adopted home town of Grøa, Norway.

It’s been 13 years since the veteran musician released previous material with the band. She’s also best known as the co-founder of one of the most influential musical collectives of the past, oh, forever amount of years. During her time living in Denver, Colorado, Sidney part of the legendary Elephant 6 collective and was a founding member of the much-loved The Apples In Stereo.

Sidney is the sole female founder of Elephant 6, which promoted The Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Olivia Tremor Control. Throughout her tenure in this collective, and when she moved forward from the group, Sidney’s passion for songwriting never waned.

The LP is 38 minutes of perfect power-pop, with one song after another that will take any fan of the songs that Sidney contributed to Apples recordings – her voice is instantly recognizable – right back to the most potent days of that band’s career.