GrouperBest Grouper Albums Ranked
8.1
Avg Score
31
Opinions
9
Albums
11
Reviewers
Summary from 31 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Grouper's catalog across 9 albums from 31 opinions, with an overall average of 8.1/10. The top-rated Grouper album is Ruins (2014) with a 8.6/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by Shade and A I A: Alien Observer. The discography on Wavelength spans 2005 to 2021. Holding ranks as the highest-rated Grouper song on Wavelength with a 8.7/10 average.
Ruins
“Ruins is Grouper's "unplugged" record, essentially, as much as that might sound odd for a musician who has always put acoustic guitar and piano and voice at the core of her work. Here she foreswears the looping pedals and the innumerable layers of fuzz, and what we're left with is achingly beautiful.”
The Man Who Died In His Boat
“Liz Harris' newest collection of charred ambiance is a companion to 2008's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill recorded during the same period. The gorgeous and haunting The Man Who Died in His Boat shares many of that earlier record's characteristics and essential appeal.”
Shade
“Recorded over the last 15 years, and alternating between stripped-down folk and thickets of distortion, Shade takes Grouper’s careful balance between intimacy and inscrutability to a new extreme.”
Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
“Strong melodies and actual songs always lurked deep inside-- or perhaps underneath-- the music of Liz Harris' Grouper, but you had to work to hear them underneath layers of sonic muck; here, she strips away much of the effects-laden gauze and the result is an arresting album of pastoral psychedelic pop.”
A I A: Alien Observer
“Despite working in an increasingly rich and crowded ambient-pop field, Grouper's Liz Harris continues to own her distinctive sound on these LPs.”
Shade
“Grouper's twelfth outing Shade is an expected delight”
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