VIDEO OF THE DAY: “UNDREAM A YEAR” BY VALLEYS

“There is no hiding now or ever / There’s no escape for us, it seems,” Matilda (Tillie) Perks sings on “Hounds,” one of ten tracks on the “debut” album by Montreal-based lo-fi dream-pop shoegazers Valleys. Formerly a trio that released the 2009 LP Sometimes Water Kills People, the 2010 EP Stoner, and the 2011 tour EP River Phoenix, Valleys is now firmly a duo, with Perks on vocals, guitar, keyboards, and sequencer and Marc St Louis on vocals, guitar, keyboards, and drums. (Pascal Oliver is no longer part of the group.) Valleys is escaping from their former incarnation, reintroducing themselves on their new record, Are You Going to Stand There and Talk Weird All Night? (Kanine, April 30, 2012), wiping away the past and starting again with a fresh, though still ethereal, sound. Valleys deals with loss and recovery on the disc, which features such songs as “Absolutely Everything All the Time,” “Living Normal,” “Exing Everything,” and “John, Meet Me at the Precipice.” Are You Going to Stand There and Talk Weird All Night? basks in a mysterious, otherworldly glow, created with the help of coproducer Alec Dippie, aka Orson Presence from the Monochrome Set, as tunes weave in and out of emotional highs and lows, with plenty of droning feedback throughout. Valleys will be at Glasslands on April 4 with Fol Chen and Softspot.