Phil Elverum
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After the quiet, contemplative Clear Moon dropped in May, I almost immediately started yearning for the more aggressive side of Mount Eerie that albums like 2008’s Wind’s Poem had displayed. Thankfully, the new Mount Eerie album Ocean Roar delivers just that. The title track is the first song
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Mount Eerie’s last album, Clear Moon, definitely took drone and repetition to the forefront for the longtime musical project of singer-songwriter Phil Elverum. Phil is now gearing up to release his second album of 2012, Ocean Roar, and “Pale Lights” is the first song to drop from it. The
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On Mount Eerie’s latest effort, Phil Elverum managest to transform is usual sounds and emotions into a repetitive, drone-y, and sometimes ambient musical experience. Mostly, it’s beautiful, but a few moments felt a bit overlong to me. Plus, despite being well over 40 minutes, I didn’t come
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Mount Eerie is not just releasing one, but two albums this year. Between this and the two albums Death Grips is releasing this year, I might explode. Keep fragile things and the faint of heart away from me. The sheer force of this explosion might harm others. Anyway, the last
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Featuring members of xbxrx, SWAPS, Hawnay Troof, and the Raincoats–it’s the dude currently drumming for them–Kit is a Los Angeles outfit that keeps a torch lit for the sunny, abrasive post-punk that dominated the blogosphere a few years ago when bands like No Age and Abe Vigoda
