Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill is a Alt/Indie album by Grouper, originally released in 2008. On Gatefold: 11 pressings tracked, owned by 10 collectors.
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Dream Pop
- lo-fi
- melancholic
- confessional
About
With a title as dreary and hopeless as <i>Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill</i>, Liz Harris' third proper Grouper LP doesn't exactly present itself as an uplifting listen. And you know what? It isn't. Yet here we are, unable to ignore Harris' ambient haze, a self-conscious cloud of delay/distortion effects that can't quite contain the inherent beauty of her sleep-deprived hooks. Well hooks in a general sense, since most Grouper songs sound like they were literally submerged in water, leaving generous layers of rust and decaying drone tones behind. Harris revealz a full-on melody in the rickety bridge of "Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping." It's a doozy, too, making us long for a Grouper LP that completely lifts the veil off Harris' phantom vocals. For now, though, we're more than content witnessing her fevered dreams — mood music that generates the same numbing sensation as tossing a pile of sepia-toned photos in a fire.
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Tracklist
- 1Disengaged4:16
- 2Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping2:53
- 3Stuck5:59
- 4When We Fall2:07
- 5Traveling Through a Sea4:23
- 6Fishing Bird (Empty Gutted In the Evening Breeze)3:51
- 7Invisible3:55
- 8I'm Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill2:21
- 9A Cover Over2:48
- 10Wind and Snow4:30
- 11Tidal Wave5:35
- 12We've All Gone to Sleep3:03
Credits
Songwriting
10 collectors on Gatefold own this · 11 pressings tracked on Gatefold