Paradise Valley

Paradise Valley is a 7-inch single at 45 RPM on Yellow Electric (GR-015), limited to 1,000 copies in a full-color sleeve with a printed insert of lyrics, pressed by GZ Media; a repress of 1,000 followed in October 2023. MusicBrainz classifies it as an EP, while Discogs, Stereogum, Stranded Records and NPR treat it as a single. It came out on December 21, 2016, the winter solstice, and the digital release the same day on Bandcamp is 16-bit/44.1kHz. Side A is "Headache" (5:04) and side B "I'm Clean Now" (2:54). The runout etchings read My mother in the water on side A and Hanging their flowered heads in the wind on side B.

Stranded Records calls it Harris's first recording in two and a half years since Ruins (2014), about eight minutes of music, bedroom drone-folk with soft-focus, melancholic textures that relies less on echo. Stereogum's Chris DeVille described "Headache" as a steady organic dream-pop churn that sounds like a sunrise, and "I'm Clean Now" as similarly sparse, warm, and all-consuming. NPR's Lars Gotrich called the release a muted meditation, noting that Ruins had stripped away much of the ambiance. We found no producer, studio, recording date or personnel.