What will the general attitude toward Mount Eerie be in twenty or thirty years?

(in other words, OTM everyone above)

sure mount eerie haven't really made an impression (yet), but i consider myself quite a big fan of the microphones. i think elvrum (much like jeff mangum) will have an influence over future indy pop - bridging the gap between the lo-fi/noisy and multi-instrumentalist sounds...

i don't know wht the attitude will be, but my present attitude for "lost wisdom" is highly positive.

I'd like to get it--more due to Julie Doiron than Mr. Elvrum.

the duet male/female vocals is a crucial reason for this album success

love julie doiron

I'm a fan, but it's a weird non sequitur to ask for a thread start, no?

haha this album suxxx

Well I'm wrapping up a listen to an advance of the new one, Sauna, right now, and my attitude is: it just became my favorite release of the year so far. I have always irregularly enjoyed Phil Elverum's work as I've heard it but I would never pretend to be an in-depth fan, so how much this draws on or perhaps only reworks more recent times I can't say. But heard it in its own right, this second, Sauna's hitting a ridiculously good sweet spot touching on understated indie rock rumination, huge drone washes and flow, moments of sudden beauty where you can hear both the performance and the production intersect in striking ways and much more. It feels like a culmination of an approach that I almost thought didn't exist much any more, and it may be comparable in its small c-catholicism and embracing feeling only to Liz Harris in terms of emotional resonance. Nothing about it per se is 'new' but everything about it connects and reaches to a higher level. A striking, wonderful listen tonight that I might have needed more than I realized.

i think that sums up my feeling about isolated Microphones tracks. When it works, it's sublime; unfortunately, albums seem very uneven.

Sauna is really nice

i never know which mt eerie thread to revive.

my favorite of his in quite a while, and i've enjoyed his recent run of albums as well.

Clear Moon is my favorite but this might be 2nd to that

really love the organ drone on the 1st track, its so thick & warm

It's a really lovely album. A true surprise for me.

Well I'm wrapping up a listen to an advance of the new one, Sauna, right now, and my attitude is: it just became my favorite release of the year so far. I have always irregularly enjoyed Phil Elverum's work as I've heard it but I would never pretend to be an in-depth fan, so how much this draws on or perhaps only reworks more recent times I can't say. But heard it in its own right, this second, Sauna's hitting a ridiculously good sweet spot touching on understated indie rock rumination, huge drone washes and flow, moments of sudden beauty where you can hear both the performance and the production intersect in striking ways and much more. It feels like a culmination of an approach that I almost thought didn't exist much any more, and it may be comparable in its small c-catholicism and embracing feeling only to Liz Harris in terms of emotional resonance. Nothing about it per se is 'new' but everything about it connects and reaches to a higher level. A striking, wonderful listen tonight that I might have needed more than I realized.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:10 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OK I'm much more interested in hearing this now than I already was, and I loved both Clear Moon and Ocean Roar (latter was a bit overlooked). Thanks for this.

pysched to hear that 'sauna' is good

I just went from excited to hear this to EXCITED TO HEAR THIS

It'son spotify. Sauna is such a perfect title for a Mt Eerie album like this.

A bird crapped on my left shoulder on the way to work this morning and it occurred to me that a better and more relatable title for Elverum's album would have been A Crow Pooped On Me