The Man Who Died In His Boat
by Grouper
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Grouper bestography
The Man Who Died In His Boat is ranked 5th best out of 14 albums by Liz Harris on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Liz Harris is Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill which is ranked number 1582 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,089.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 03/03/2026 09:38 | cicadelic | 13,016 | 73/100 | |
| 07/01/2025 04:35 |  Nacho212 | 1,928 | 72/100 | |
| 11/24/2023 13:55 | RemainInLight | 3,472 | 36/100 | |
| 06/10/2023 05:08 |  zags7000 | 20,468 | 64/100 | |
| 11/12/2022 21:56 |  Arthurknight | 9,591 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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Antonio-Pedro 06/16/2017 01:24 | #192681
Grouper Presents: Dreamy Symphonies on D Major!
Mophos 11/16/2013 18:09 | #92931
I cannot get into the mood to really enjoy this. Any advice on how to get into this? How does it make you feel, what do you pay attention to? I feel like I'm missing something to really enjoy it.
You have to love reverb, ghost-like mood to love this record. A really deep and disturbing record. Perfect to drift off in a forest in the night time.
This actually may be the best introduction to grouper, as in it's an album you can take song-by-song and dissect her more concrete themes and moods, from heartbroken (cloud in places), sensitive and melancholic (being her shadow, vital), mortality (the man who died in his boat) and an eerie paranoia (vanishing point). And although not one of her most ambitious works, it's a consistiently lovely and ultimately optimistic album, despite all the sadness.
NubbinBased 02/08/2013 05:15 | #64444
Would you like some more reverb?
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