type: singlereleased: 6th october 2010
label: room40
genre: ambient, psychedelic folk, drone
This limited edition tour single is being released exclusively on 7" and is already proving near impossible to track down. It's no great departure from 2008's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, the album which brought Portlander Liz Harris widespread attention and appreciation, but she does a fine job of recalling her sombre, reverb-heavy atmosphere over the space of just two songs, Hold and Sick.
The former is the real gem here, with a simple, brooding guitar melody based around four notes that mutates subtly over its five minutes, both eerie and quietly menacing. Sick feels like an extended outro, with no discernible beat or rhythm, a wash of claustrophobic ambient haze. It's gentle and meandering as tracks such as Tidal Wave from her last album, feeling like a song made out of pure acoustics. It's a worthy transition between two albums.
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