Valleys
Though they had been collaborating on music together for awhile, the Montreal-based duo Valleys made their debut with 2009's Sometimes Water Kills People on Semprini Records. Multi-instrumentalists Matilda Perks (keys, guitar, sequencer) & Marc St. Louis (guitar, keyboards, drums) both write and sing, crafting dreamily atmospheric electronic pop with guitars that's filled with melancholy emotion, but is also unfailingly melodic and sweet. They followed up the album with a couple of EPs (2010's Stoner and 2011's River Phoenix) as they played gigs and honed their sound. The duo signed with New York's Kanine Records and began working on an album with producer Alec Dippie from British post-punk group the Monochrome Set. Are You Just Going to Stand There and Talk Weird All Night? is filled with loss (for Perks it was the passing of family members, for St. Louis it was the ending of a relationship) and different ways of dealing with it (Perks' Shambhala Buddhist beliefs, St. Louis' maturation process). It was released in early 2013, as the band launched a North American tour.
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Discography
14 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Stoner
Alternative & Indie - Released by Semprini Records on 9 Nov 2010
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Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night?
Alternative & Indie - Released by Kanine Records on 16 Apr 2013
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Fragile Minds (feat. Garrett Russell)
Rock - Released by Tragic Hero Records on 30 Aug 2019
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Sometimes Water Kills People
Alternative & Indie - Released by Semprini Records on 8 Sep 2009
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Undream A Year
Alternative & Indie - Released by Kanine Records on 19 Feb 2013
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Mountains Meet Oceans
Metal - Released by Valleys on 18 Nov 2014
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Moon Lakes
Alternative & Indie - Released by Perpetual Motion Machine Recording Co. on 19 Jan 2013
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