Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

by Grouper

Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 June 2008
  • Label: Type
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:41
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 11 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Liz Harris creates a ghostly, submerged world on her breakthrough album. Layers of tape hiss, reverb, and acoustic guitar bury her whispered vocals, creating a sound that is both intimate and distant. It is a haunting masterpiece of ambient folk.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, atmospheric, droning, reverb-heavy, muffled, dreamy, ambient, female-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Disengaged (04:16)
  2. Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping (02:53)
  3. Stuck (05:59)
  4. When We Fall (02:07)
  5. Traveling Through a Sea (04:23)
  6. Fishing Bird (Empty Gutted in the Evening Breeze) (03:51)
  7. Invisible (03:55)
  8. I'm Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (02:21)
  9. A Cover Over (02:48)
  10. Wind and Snow (04:30)
  11. Tidal Wave (05:35)
  12. We've All Gone to Sleep (03:03)

Credits

  • Liz Harris - songwriter [all songs by]
  • Timothy Stollenwerk - mastered by [stereophonic mastering]

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