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. 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.

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. 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.

'The third full-length release for Portland, Oregon-based Liz Harris. Here are ten essential Q4 releases, all available on Bandcamp.2022 repress LP version. For the final edition of our quarterly roundup for 2021, we’re continuing to reflect and acknowledge musicians, artists, producers and DJs from across the globe, all with strong communities, real visions, and important statements to make. Regardless of the difficulty setting of the moment, as always, new and under-discussed talents from the worlds of underground music continue to use community and craft to find a way. The pandemic’s economic impact has hugely affected the arts, with those already struggling financially being hit the hardest. Despite the sometimes spoken, sometimes unspoken uncertainties that colour the day-to-day realities of many, music continues to function as a shared communal space and a source of collective solace. Depending on where you are in the world right now, you might be out of lockdown and dancing, or returning to restrictions.

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