It’s hard to avoid words like ‘oneiric’ when talking about Liz Harris (AKA Grouper)’s music but it’s undeniably a quality that it typically exhibits. Maybe that’s why it’s so consistently compelling. It hangs heavy with mystery; the vocals are always just within reach, but slippery, indistinct, blurred. In an age where information on almost everything is instantly available, it teases you with words you can never quite understand, and notes muddied in endless shimmering reverb. Ruins (recorded in Portugal in 2011) does not completely discard of these qualities, but it does skew them.