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Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

Grouper · 2008

• Scores: Noise 2, Unease 4, Complexity 1 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Folk, Ambient Folk
• Mood: hazy, ghostly, melancholic
• Sound: ambient, drone, buried vocals, tape hiss, reverb-drenched guitar, lo-fi recording, no steady rhythm, slow tempos

Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill is the Grouper album that Liz Harris wrote and produced herself, released on Type Records in 2008. Its songs draw on British folk, devotional music and gothic lullabies, and the music is usually labelled dream pop, drone and psychedelic pop. It is one of the clearest entry points to Grouper's hushed, hazy sound.

Track list

1. Disengaged (4:16)
2. Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping (2:53)
3. Stuck (5:59)
4. When We Fall (2:07)
5. Traveling Through a Sea (4:23)
6. Fishing Bird (Empty Gutted in the Evening Breeze) (3:51)
7. Invisible (3:55)
8. I'm Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2:21)
9. A Cover Over (2:48)
10. Wind and Snow (4:30)
11. Tidal Wave (5:35)
12. We've All Gone to Sleep (3:03)