Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping

Liz Harris records as Grouper, and her entire discography functions like weather in different registers. “Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping” is one of the clearest examples — five minutes of a single guitar and a voice buried beneath such thick reverb that the two elements fuse into a single fogged-over texture.

There are no drums. There is no build. There is only the slow dissolution of the song into its own reverb tail, and the specific sensation of humidity you feel listening to it. Harris makes music for the kind of afternoon when the air has weight and the horizon is vague. Put it on and let the room thicken.