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* FadingIntoTheNextSong: All over ''Dead Deer.''
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'''Grouper''' is the name of the solo project by Liz Harris (July 15, 1980), a musician, artist, and producer from West Marin, UsefulNotes/{{California}}. She first started making music independently in 2005. In 2008, she found had breakthrough with the album ''Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill.'' Her musical style is considered {{Ambient}}, {{Slowcore}}, [[AvantGardeMusic avant-garde]] [[FolkMusic folk]], PsychedelicRock, drone, [[ and (musical) {{Minimalism}}.

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'''Grouper''' is the name of the solo project by Liz Harris (July 15, 1980), a musician, artist, and producer from West Marin, UsefulNotes/{{California}}. She first started making music independently in 2005. In 2008, she found had breakthrough with the album ''Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill.'' Her musical style is considered {{Ambient}}, [[{{Ambient}} ambient, drone]], {{Slowcore}}, [[AvantGardeMusic avant-garde]] [[FolkMusic folk]], PsychedelicRock, drone, [[ and (musical) {{Minimalism}}.

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'''Grouper''' is the name of the solo project by Liz Harris (July 15, 1980), a musician, artist, and producer from West Marin, UsefulNotes/{{California}}. She first started making music independently in 2005. In 2008, she found had breakthrough with the album ''Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill.'' Her musical style is considered {{Ambient}}, {{Slowcore}}, PsychedelicRock, and (musical) {{Minimalism}}.

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'''Grouper''' is the name of the solo project by Liz Harris (July 15, 1980), a musician, artist, and producer from West Marin, UsefulNotes/{{California}}. She first started making music independently in 2005. In 2008, she found had breakthrough with the album ''Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill.'' Her musical style is considered {{Ambient}}, {{Slowcore}}, [[AvantGardeMusic avant-garde]] [[FolkMusic folk]], PsychedelicRock, drone, [[ and (musical) {{Minimalism}}.



* DistinctDoubleAlbum: The ''A I A'' albums, which are separated but considered to be one album split in half.
* EchoingAcoustics: A calling card of hers. Sometimes it's hard to understand her lyrics because her vocals are so quiet.

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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Nearly all of her album covers are this, minus ''Dead Deer.''
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: The ''A I A'' albums, which are separated separated, but considered to be one album split in half.
* EchoingAcoustics: A calling card of hers. Sometimes it's hard to understand her lyrics because her vocals are so quiet.faint.


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* FaceOnTheCover: ''The Man Who Died In His Boat'' is her only album cover with her face on it.


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* IndecipherableLyrics: Grouper treats her voice as more of another instrument in the mix. Many of her song's certainly ''sound'' like they have lyrics, but good luck trying to figure them out. Though this isn't always the case, like with "Headache," which is more lyrically driven.
* LighterAndSofter: ''A I A: Alien Observer'' compared to ''A I A: Dream Loss.''
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* SelfBackingVocalist: Often layers her vocals over each other many times.
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* NewSoundAlbum: ''Ruins'', which is mostly piano-centric.
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* EpicRocking: As per her {{Ambient}} style.

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* The Man Who Died in His Boat (2013)
* Ruins (2014)

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* The ''The Man Who Died in His Boat Boat'' (2013)
* Ruins ''Ruins'' (2014)



* ''After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house as "Nivhek" (2019)

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* ''After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house as "Nivhek" "Nivhek"'' (2019)


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* EitherOrTitle: "Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping."
* HellIsThatNoise: The start of "Disengaged."


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* SequelSong: "Dragging the Streets - First Heart Tone" on ''A I A: Dream Loss,'' then "Mary, On the Wall - Second Heart Tone" on ''A I A: Alien Observer.''
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'''Grouper''' is the name of the solo project by Liz Harris (July 15, 1980), a musician, artist, and producer from West Marin, UsefulNotes/{{California}}. She first started making music independently in 2005. In 2008, she found had breakthrough with the album ''Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill.'' Her musical style is considered {{Ambient}}, {{Slowcore}}, PsychedelicRock, and (musical) {{Minimalism}}.

Her StageName, while it shares the same name as a type of fish, is actually based on her idea that music is just a "grouping of sounds," and she is just the "grouper."

!!!Albums:
* ''Grouper'' (2005)
* ''Way Their Crept'' (2005)
* ''Wide'' (2006)
* ''Cover the Windows and the Walls'' (2007)
* ''Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill'' (2008)
* ''A I A: Dream Loss'' (2011)
* ''A I A: Alien Observer'' (2011)
* The Man Who Died in His Boat (2013)
* Ruins (2014)
* ''Grid of Points'' (2018)
* ''After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house as "Nivhek" (2019)
* ''Shade'' (2021)

!!I'd rather be troping:
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: '''''D'''ragging a '''D'''ead '''D'''eer Up a Hill.''
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: The ''A I A'' albums, which are separated but considered to be one album split in half.
* EchoingAcoustics: A calling card of hers. Sometimes it's hard to understand her lyrics because her vocals are so quiet.
* {{Minimalism}}: Her compositions are very spare.
* OneWomanSong: "Mary, On the Wall."
* SuicideBySea: Mentioned in "Headache."
--> ''My mother once told me she walked into the ocean\\
Didn't want to die, just couldn't tell where the horizon was''
* TextlessAlbumCover: All of them, minus ''Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill'' and ''The Man Who Died In His Boat.''

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