CLOSED-BNMAT-Dragging a Dead Deer def High Violet

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Poll: Which Album?
High Violet
40%
 40%  [11]
Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
59%
 59%  [16]
Total Votes : 27

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Saoirse
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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 03:18
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HIGH VIOLET by National (captain: Harkan)


High Violet by The National




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DRAGGING A DEAD DEER UP A HILL by Grouper (captain: Saoirse)


Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill by Grouper






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MrFrogger
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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 03:29
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Both fantastic records, but High Violet recently became my favorite National record, I just gotta go with it. It's just so breathtaking, and sad in such a subtle way, that it makes you feel inspired without you even noticing.
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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 03:54
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Dragging A Dead Deer is a fucking masterpiece. High Violet is ok, I guess.
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Saoirse
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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 03:55
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Im going to come back with more promotion later, but please please please everybody give grouper a listen before voting
gtroda
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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 03:56
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Saoirse wrote:
Im going to come back with more promotion later, but please please please everybody give grouper a listen before voting


I can empathize with you being matched up against an album by The National.

I will listen openly.
Happymeal
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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 08:55
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Defago wrote:
Dragging A Dead Deer is a fucking masterpiece. High Violet is ok, I guess.


Somewhat agreed. I think High Violet is Ok while Dragging a Dead Deer is a pretty high quality album.
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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 08:58
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High Violet: 6/10, OK record.
Dragging...: 9/10 great discovery, thanks.

Grouper it is.
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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 10:14
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Seems I am on a precipice at the moment with this. I will be travelling again to Adelaide so I will be out for a few days. Might not get a decent promo up in time.

EDIT: A few points

My first experience of The National was this song. Not only did the song resonate with my musical taste, the connection with the beard was profound.


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Another great song and video of theirs.


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High Violet made it onto the end of year charts for many and still lives high in esteem for some. Every listen rewards you with another favourite moment or sequence.

People may be sick of it. They might have moved on Trouble Will Find Me. But the impact this album has had on me may last a while.



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Saoirse
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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 14:44
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I think the most fascinating thing about Dragging a Dead Deer is that despite the crazy time of it's release, it is an album that is so remarkably out of time, one that seems to exist in another world far from our own, but makes you experience, rather than academically explore, those emotions and big questions that often don't get explored in modern music (grief, lost memories, the inevitability of fate, the soothing sense of mental peace one can gain when immersed back into the natural world). While it's an undeniably sad record about how fragile existience really is, it's also an album that is remarkably gentle. Dragging a Dead Deer not only suggests a melancholy existience but explores the utter beauty of life on earth, and few records really are not only willing but successful in exploring both, making Dragging a Dead Deer absolutely vital experience almost unparalled in it's enigmatic beauty.

The first two tracks hit that two-sided coin of sadness and gentle beauty the best, from the dark and stunning noise collage of Disengaged to the soothing folk-like trance of Heavy Water/Id Rather be sleeping, the closest thing to a musical waterfall I think that will ever be achieved. How they blend into each other is practically magic


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And these other songs explore the natural themes in their violence, calmness and penultimate sense of peace


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Just an incredibly beautiful record from an artist that finally opens up her immense talent and makes something both musically accessible but still intent on exploring those more ambigious themes dealing with life and death that few really explore, or at least not with this sense of natural perspective.


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  • Posted: 06/14/2013 15:44
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Both beautiful...

...but High Violet and I know each other so well...
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