krank177_grouper.pdf

artist: Grouper

title: The Man Who Died in His Boat

catalog#: krank177

formats available: LP / CD / digital

upc code cd: 7 96441 81772 6

release date: February 4, 2013

When I was a teenager the wreckage of a sailboat washed up on the shore of Agate Beach. The

remains of the vessel weren't removed for several days. I walked down with my father to peer inside the

boat cabin. Maps, coffee cups and clothing were strewn around inside.

I remember looking only brieﬂy, wilted by the feeling that I was violating some remnant of this man's

presence by witnessing the evidence of its failure. Later I read a story about him in the paper. It was

impossible to know what had happened. The boat had never crashed or capsized. He had simply

slipped off somehow, and the boat, like a riderless horse, eventually came back home.

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The Man Who Died in His Boat is an album of unreleased songs recorded alongside the Dragging a

Dead Deer Up a Hill album.

press quotes for Dragging a Dead Deer...:

“Thereʼs a deeply meditative, almost spiritual beauty to these tracks; a melancholy thatʼs simultaneously

strangely hopeful.” Drowned in Sound

“This remarkable album is actually what I personally always wanted 4AD records to sound like, only they

never quite delivered the hazy pleasures their beautiful sleeve art promised.” Pitchfork [8.2]

“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.” Mojo

“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.” Sputnik

“On this wonderful, foggy dream of a record, Portlandʼs Liz Harris has gone and bested nearly

everything sheʻs done as Grouper. Music this lovely could almost change the world.” XLR8R

track list:

1. 6 2. Vital 3. Cloud in places 4. Being her shadow 5. Cover the long way 6. Difference (voices)

7. Vanishing point 8. The Man Who Died In His Boat 9. Towers 10. STS 11. Living room

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