[ Kranky / LP ]
Release Date: Friday 19 July 2024
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The third full-length release for Portland, Oregon-based LIZ HARRIS.
Harris might have achieved a significant fan base thanks to the whispering, near-ambient vocal crusades of her debut album Way Their Crept and its follow-up Wide, but those with a careful ear would have heard slightly more trapped beneath her fuzzy chain of effects.
Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill marks a departure of sorts for Liz, which sees her turn down the fuzz boxes which caged (and to some degree defined) her sound and allows her voice to ring out above everything else. It is an album steeped in the world of dream-pop and far from shying away from the reference, Liz has instead grabbed on with both hands, creating an album's worth of perfect, left-field pop songs. Using delicate song structures which are at once both familiar and somehow alien, her vocals cry out hauntingly over stripped-down guitar lines and looped environmental recordings.
A1. Disengaged
A2. Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
A3. Stuck
A4. When We Fall
A5. Traveling Through A Sea
A6. Fishing Bird (Empty Gutted In The Evening Breeze) B1. Invisible
B2. I'm Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
B3. A Cover Over
B4. Wind And Snow
B5. Tidal Wave
B6. We've All Gone To Sleep