The High Water Marks
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The High Water Marks | |
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| Origin | Happy Happy Birthday To Me Eenie Meenie Records Jigsaw Records Minty Fresh Records Wonderful & Strange Records |
| Members | Per Ole Bratset Hilarie Sidney Logan R Miller Øystein Megård |
| Past members | Mike Snowden Jim Lindsay |
The High Water Marks is an indie rock band associated with the Elephant 6 collective. The band has two lead creative members, Hilarie Sidney and Per Ole Bratset, who co-write the band's music.
Band history
Hilarie Sidney, drummer for The Apples in Stereo and Per Ole Bratset of the band Palermo met during an Apples in Stereo performance in Oslo, Norway. The two became friends and began recording songs together through the mail before deciding to record together in the United States.[1] During this time, the band's debut album Songs About the Ocean was recorded, with Sidney and Bratset performing all of the instruments themselves.
Sidney and Bratset, now married, were joined by Jim Lindsay (former
In 2019, Hilarie and Per Ole started working on a new album with Logan Miller at his home studio in Kentucky. The album was completed while in pandemic lockdown, with Øystein Megård also joining on drums and several other instruments. Logan Miller played bass, guitars and drums. The album Ecstasy Rhymes was released worldwide through Minty Fresh Records on November 13 2020, and in Norway on Wonderful & Strange Records.
Band members
- Per Ole Bratset – guitar, bass, lead vocals
- Hilarie Sidney – guitar, drums, keyboards, lead vocals
- Logan R Miller – bass, guitar, drums, vocals
- Øystein Megård – drums, keyboards, guitar, vocals
Discography
- Songs About the Ocean (2004), Eenie Meenie Records CD/LP (US) and Racing Junior (Europe)
- Happy Happy Birthday To Me RecordsCD Wonderful & Strange Records LP (2019 Reissue)
- Arivar Sullimer (2009), The Fox Pop Recording co. Cassette
- Happy Happy Birthday to me Records.7"
- Pretending to be Loud (2012) Jigzaw Records CD
- Annual Rings EP (2013), Peoples King Recording Company, Digital Download
- Ecstasy Rhymes (2020) Minty Fresh Records LP (world) and Wonderful & Strange Records LP (Norway)[2]
- Proclaimer of Things (2022) Minty Fresh Records LP
- Your Next Wolf (2023) Minty Fresh Records LP and 6612 Tapes (cassette)
References
- ^ "<meta HTTP-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/HTML; charset=iso-8859-1"/> NameBright - Coming Soon". Archived from the original on 2021-03-01. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ^ "Ecstasy Rhymes - The High Water Marks | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
External links
- The High Water Marks at MySpace
- The High Water Marks on Bandcamp
- Hilarie Sidney interview at Optical Atlas
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