Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

Harris made it in 2007 and 2008 while holding down a demanding job with little spare time; she later said the period felt like being trapped in a graveyard. Before it came out she worried it was too poppy. The cover is a photograph her mother took of her as a child dressed as a witch. It was released by Type in June 2008, self-repressed on vinyl in 2009, and reissued by Kranky in 2013 alongside The Man Who Died in His Boat, drawn from the same sessions.

Pitchfork's 2008 review called it druggy, sexy, arty and pretty but never pretentious and noted how many songs refer to sleep and water; the site's reissue review five years later called it her best album and a classic, admitting Pitchfork had underrated it. It is sixth in Pitchfork's list of the best dream-pop albums.