On forgotten 7''es

You all know them. Those 7''es that someone once gave you, that you liked, but never really really liked, and as such filed in the end of your collection where you dont come that often. Well Grouper's 7'' He knows, he knows, he knows was one of those for me. A friend, who knows Liz Harris (aka Grouper) personally once gave me this record, and though I liked it, it never really caught me. Thus it just sat there for a good while, untill someday, I dug it out, for whatever reason, and became interested to see what else there were in her discography, apart from the three songs on the 7''. What I found blew me away.

Grouper made quite a few records, so what I'll share with you here, is simply the one that is most to my liking. It should be said however, that everything I've heard by her so far, is pretty good.

The record in question is called Dragging a dead dear up a hill, and was made in 2008. Musically Grouper deals in variations of drone. But not bassheavy, hour-long drones, meant exclusively to destroy you speakers with subsonic terror. Instead we are dealing with beautiful, dreamy and sometimes almost delicate and fragile songs, with Liz Harris vocals and her guitar lapping against each other, like waves upon the beach. The music gives me an impression of lying just below the surface of a body of water, and beholding the world sliding by me, in slow motion. I cant recommend this record highly enough.

As always, if you like it, go and find it somewhere, and buy it. Good artists are worth supporting.