Pitchfork has managed to pry some exciting news from the ever-elusive Grouper. According to an E-mail exchange between the two, Liz Harris has completed two LPs for an April release: Dream Loss and Alien Observer. Collectively known as A  I  A, the self-released efforts will be available in digital and vinyl formats, “meant to stand solidly on their own, and also as satellites in the same system.”

“Dream Loss is a collection of older songs, mostly written before a hard time,” Harris explained. “Alien Observer, for the most part, is made of songs recorded after that time. Each has a song that belongs thematically on the other, a seam stitching them together. Both albums…explore otherness. Being an other to one’s own self, to other humans; ghosts and aliens, both literal and metaphorical; and other worlds to escape to (beneath the water, in the sky). Thinking about people who have died…