Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill - Grouper
  • Band Name: Grouper
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  • Release Date: Jun 10, 2008
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80 out of 100

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8.9 out of 10

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  • Summary: The third album for the Portland, Oregon-based indie pop singer Liz Harris.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
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  1. Drowned In Sound
    90
    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.
  2. Sputnikmusic
    90
    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.
  3. Mojo
    80
    A 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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  4. PopMatters
    60
    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.

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  1. Vampire25
    8
    Grouper craft a compelling listen with Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill. From the first track, the vocals and the minimalist approach to their sound are haunting. The production I thought was fantastic for being an independent record. The way the songs lap onto each other as if it is still the same song was really unique.

    Grouper managed to not only make a great record, but blow me away in the process.    … Expand

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