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- Summary: The third album for the Portland, Oregon-based indie pop singer Liz Harris.
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- Genre(s): Rock
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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More than just a pretty acoustic record, Harris, through Grouper, has created a startlingly vivid and brooding shoegaze gem that works in spite of its length and first impressions.
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Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, can simultaneously be one of the most delicate, affecting albums of the year, and, yet, at the same time have such a strange, menacing name.
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Dead Deer is druggy and sexy and arty and pretty, but never pretentious.
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MojoA psych-folk bent for harmonic discord and atmospheric dread finds something forever sinister lodged at the album's heart: the kind of beauty that makes sailors run aground. [Dec 2008, p.102]
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Despite all these potential distractions, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill remains, quite simply, a beautiful album, possibly because. Harris feels so comfortable in her own skin.
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I can’t help but feel that this album wants to have it several ways, but the net result of following all those paths means it plays out only one way.
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This Liz, however, can still produce a satisfying forty-five minutes or so of 4AD-styled mysterious, drifting amorphia (complete with acoustic guitars and pretty vocals), and that’s rare enough that Grouper are worth watching.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Apr 26, 2013
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Jul 9, 2020
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