Mount Eerie - No Flashlight

they're like a pallet full of sound from a fog filled netherworld

not really feeling this new one

https://youtu.be/LsvQkuwMb0Y

Album is out. Oof. Phil misses Michelle. It's pretty but it's another tough listen.

it's lower key than Now Only, which is his career peak imo, but i'm still enjoying it and certainly more than the first Lost Wisdom

Peak eh? I liked it a lot, bought the record, but I can't spend a load of time with these things. Anyway the first song put out from this new one, "Love Without Possession" is my favorite of his in years. Gorgeous.

After that plus the name of this project, I was surprised that it is basically Now Only pt2 featuring Julie Doiron... that doesn't have the same ring to it though. I do look forward to listening more when I'm in the mood. Some pretty stunning moments here.

Is this the default Mt Eerie thread?

I don’t know anything about this music but my good friend is selling a job lot of early stuff - all the proceeds going to First Nations Development Institute

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Collection-of-Microphones-Mount-Eerie-Vinyl-and-Ephemera-FUNDRAISER-/303611851564?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292

https://www.firstnations.org/

Ah man, cool selection. I swear there was another thread bumped recently for the upcoming album - might be under Phil Elvrum or his Microphones moniker.

haha, i own kind of am embarrassing amount of stuff in that auction. but some really rare stuff too, like the test pressings!

:o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BkabF31ak&feature=youtu.be&t=01

the microphones - microphones in 2020 (2020)

heads up, phil is guesting on my mate's nts show this week reading some poetry and doing some new songs acapella. airing tuesday night/wednesday morning depending where you are:

https://www.nts.live/shows/plastic-language/episodes/plastic-language-12th-july-2023

https://www.lowprofilepodcast.com/season-7/72-phil-elverum-and-matt-fenton

Check out this podcast episode if you, like me, picked up "On Earth" by Peace from Phil's merch table and wondered what in the hell you were listening to. A 17 minute album I could never finish. I didn't know if it was a joke or some toss-off made with friends in an afternoon. No. Apparently Phil thought for a minute he'd release other people's music and wasted a lot of money recording them in Florida. And a bunch of other details that probably aren't true. Fun listen.

clear moon sounded absolutely wonderful to me tonight in a way that it never has before. must be the clear moon outside

Still umming and ahhing about tickets to his Brisbane show. Saw him last in 2013 (ocean roar/clear moon era) and it was a wonderful show in an intimate venue and I just think that might be enough for me.

Gave The Microphones - Mt. Eerie another spin driving through the hinterland the other day and that first track is still a majestic effort.

i'm going. he's playing mostly new material live at the moment and it sounds great, all like "huge fire" from earlier this year so i'm looking forward to hearing it in person

& he's released his best two albums (now only and microphones in 2020) in the past 5 years so hopefully he'll at least do something from now only

That’s a good sales pitch. I’m going to see David Toop and Loren Connors the night before there (highly recommend, free/donation gig), maybe I’ll back to back it? Time to listen to his new material and see what he does

I kind of got off the bus after A Crow Looked At Me, seems like I have a lot to catch up on.

if you've ever been a fan of any of his music you've absolutely gotta hear microphones in 2020, it's his masterpiece. utterly transcendental

Just chucked it on, nice to return to that lovely stereo acoustic percussive thing he had going. A mellow version of one of my favourite gastr del sol numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDfGFW6MZo

Thanks for the rec ufo, just bought a ticket. Let me buy you a drink if you're up for it (y)

good show tonight, nice to meet H.P too

the new material (which made up most of the show) was great to hear and i'm looking forward to the album. i do hope "huge fire" will be on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpyhHs32SpY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-2JL00JdwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyYDdVxDJOg

new music at last! "i walk" is pretty great

double album Night Palace out november 1

Night Palace
Huge Fire
Breaths
Swallowed Alive
My Canopy
Broom of Wind
I Walk
(soft air)
Empty Paper Towel Roll
Wind & Fog
Wind & Fog pt. 2
Blurred World
I Heard Whales (I Think)
I Saw Another Bird
I Spoke With A Fish
Myths Come True
Non-Metaphorical Decolonization
November Rain
Co-Owner of Trees
Myths Come True pt. 2
& Sun
Writing Poems
the Gleam pt. 3
Stone Woman Gives Birth To A Child At Night
Demolition
I Need New Eyes

features most (all?) of the songs he was playing live last year & many many more

Ordered. I wish I'd been organised enough to see if anyone else in the UK wanted to purchase at the same time (the postage being so ridiculous).

and two days after he put up nice new tshirts, with my sizes sold out already, goddammit Phil!

can't wait for this. picking up the physical someday

two new book products as well. killing me

His newsletter with a long bio/intro for the album is a great read! Sounds like he's doing very well. Interesting remark that Lost Wisdom Part 2 was a failure (i mean i know it's about a failed relationship ..)

https://pwelverumandsun.substack.com/p/night-palace-by-mount-eerie

on topic, apparently the unfolding cover/poster is even larger than the one for No Flashlight

i don't think he's saying that lost wisdom part 2 was a failure, but that the relationship was. i definitely don't like it as much as the albums either side of it

it feels surprising that he's never made an album as long as the new one before, it really seems like a natural fit for his approach

"not yet fully understanding what had happened to me ... I made songs as a vote cast toward fearlessness and honesty and against the cautious heart-guarding that can keep so many of us from what’s actually ecstatically possible. (Lost Wisdom pt. 2) It didn’t work. I am embarrassed."

I could see how he might still regard this as a valiant effort but also be embarrassed by its content (still in love with person after divorce). The present tense "I am embarrassed" is unique in this little career recap, iirc.

i definitely don't like it as much as the albums either side of it

Same but now curious to revisit

Oh, I should have been patient - the LP/CD are for sale at Norman Records (and presumably other places).

https://www.pwelverumandsun.com/pages/international-stores

I know some Canadian shops that will have it, but they're not going to bother listing it until they have it in hand (if they do online at all). So thanks for the tip on Norman. UK to Canada is somehow not so bad these days (I do an occasional order from Juno, ever since Germany's rates got jacked up)... funny that Norman would've actually saved me a few bucks if I ordered there. But I just went direct and picked up some other stuff while I was at it.

"i walk" is pretty great

it really is. he def shows how to do a final act, damn

enjoyed broom of wind too. imma sucker for sinister w a groove

not bold, sry

x-posts.

I did much the same, maf you. Ordered two more CDs, which didn't change the postage.