Mount Eerie

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After the release of the Microphones' 2003 album, Mount Eerie, Washington state songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Phil Elverum took that title as the name of his subsequent project, which expanded on the searching feel of the Microphones' music. He founded the label P.W. Elverum and Sun Ltd., releasing a pair of CD-Rs, Seven New Songs of Mt. Eerie and Mt. Eerie Dances with Wolves/Wolf Mountain Howls in the World in 2004 before Mount Eerie's debut album, No Flashlight, became the label's first official Mount Eerie release in 2005. A CD/LP set with a poster that holds the record for the world's largest album cover, No Flashlight set the tone for Mount Eerie's further, intricately packaged releases, which were prolific; they included The Drums from No Flashlight, Singers (which featured different vocalists singing Elverum's songs), and the electronic-tinged 11 Old Songs of Mount Eerie, all of which also arrived in 2005.

A Microphones single, Don't Smoke/Get Off the Internet, and Mount Eerie, Pts. 6 & 7, a picture disc and book of photographs (and sequel to the Microphones album that started it all) and the Latitudes Series offering Black Wooden were issued in 2007. Released in 2008, the Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP introduced Elverum's concept of playing "black metal with natural materials" and featured a different version of "Don't Smoke." Later that year, the concert DVD Fog Movies Live and a split single with No Kids preceded Lost Wisdom, a collaboration with Eric's Trip and Broken Girl singer Julie Doiron and guitarist Fred Squire. Dawn, a journal/CD set written during Elverum's stay in Norway in late 2002/early 2003, arrived in spring 2009, while a full-length of new material, the ambient and black metal-inspired Wind's Poem, was released that summer. Elverum maintained the flurry of activity with White Stag, a CD-R recorded in Portland, Oregon, and 2010's singles compilation Song Islands, Vol. 2. Mount Eerie resurfaced in 2012 with a two-album concept project: Clear Moon, which was recorded in a de-sanctified church, arrived in May, while Ocean's Roar followed that September. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi

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    Mount Eerie - "To The Ground"
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    Working under his Mount Eerie pseudonym, former Microphones guy Phil Elverum has been responsible for lots and lots of stark, powerful music over the ...
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    Mount Eerie - "Lone Bell"

    Phil Elverum's stellar 2012 steams on: So far we've had the limited 7″ "House Shape" and word of two full-lengths, one titled better than the next. (T...
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    Mount Eerie - "Lone Bell"
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    Phil Elverum's stellar 2012 steams on: So far we've had the limited 7″ "House Shape" and word of two full-lengths, one titled better than the next. (T...
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    Stream Mount Eerie Clear Moon
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    Phil Elverum, the haunted lo-fi singer-songwriter sound-artist who used to record as the Microphones and who now records as Mount Eerie, intends to re...
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    Mount Eerie - "Pale Lights" (Excerpt)
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    It's already been a pretty excellent year for Phil Elverum (and Phil Elverum fans): Clear Moon, the first of two planned 2012 LPs from his Mount Eerie...
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    Mount Eerie - "The Place Lives" Video
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    Quill's Coffee 09/22 - Chicago, IL @ TBA 09/23 - Ames, IA @ the Orange Gentleman / Maximum Ames festival 09/24 - Omaha, NE @ DP Muller Studio 09/25 - ...
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    Mount Eerie - "Ocean Roar"
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    After two tracks of creepy, black-metal-derived ambient weirdness -- "Pale Lights" and "The Place Lives" -- I kind of expected all of Mount Eerie's su...
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    Mount Eerie - "I Walked Home Beholding"
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    Here's another single from Mount Eerie's new one, Ocean Roar, a slowly unfurling ode called "I Walked Home Beholding." It's a song that finds Phil Elv...
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    Mount Eerie - "Ocean Roar" Video
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    Until about six weeks ago, Phil Elvrum hadn't released a single video during his entire 14-year career, a streak broken with his self-created and -pro...
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    Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum to Reissue Five Albums From the Microphones
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    Phil Elverum has been releasing music under the name Mount Eerie in recent years (including two records under that moniker last year, Clear Moon and O...
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  • Jun 19 Wednesday
    Calgary, AB, Canada Sled Island Festival
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  • Jun 21 Friday
    Calgary, AB, Canada Alexandra Center
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  • Jun 22 Saturday
    Calgary, AB, Canada Golden Age Club
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  • Sep 4 Wednesday
    Yakima, WA, US Seasons Performance Hall
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  • Sep 5 Thursday
    Portland, OR, US Aladdin Theater
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  • Sep 6 Friday
    Portland, OR, US Aladdin Theater
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  • Sep 7 Saturday
    Seattle, WA, US Neptune Theatre
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Discography

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  • Live in Bloomington, September 30th, 2011 (2013)
    Mount Eerie
    Live in Bloomington, September 30th, 2011 (2013)
    Crossroads of America
  • Ocean Roar (2012)
    Mount Eerie
    Ocean Roar (2012)
    P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd.
  • Clear Moon (2012)
    Mount Eerie
    Clear Moon (2012)
    P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd.
  • Black Wooden (2011)
    Mount Eerie
    Black Wooden (2011)
    Latitudes
  • Wind's Poem (2009)
    Mount Eerie
    Wind's Poem (2009)
    Tomlab
  • Dawn (2009)
    Mount Eerie
    Dawn (2009)
    P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd.
  • Lost Wisdom (2008)
    Mount Eerie
    Lost Wisdom (2008)
    Southern Music Dist.
  • The Drums From "No Flashlight" (2005)
    Mount Eerie
    The Drums From "No Flashlight" (2005)
    P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd.
  • Live in Copenhagen (2004)
    Mount Eerie
    Live in Copenhagen (2004)
    Burnt Toast Vinyl
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