Seven new songs of "Mount Eerie"

But yeah, Glow pt. 2 is the best one.

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It's availiable at http://www.indietorrents.com

I like it.
Too bad it's extremely limited though.

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It's interesting that you're a big IWHWSITW fan, Scott. And I like that you are. :) I really don't think The Glow, Pt. 2 is a particularly great album, and have a lot more interest in its predecessors. When a song is a simple thing (as a lot of Phil's are), it's kind of annoying when it gets so lathered up in production stuff.

That said, I'm the weirdo whose favourite Microphones album, by far, is Mt. Eerie.

Hey, I didn't say it was hard to make, I said it was pretty.

Looking forward to that post tomorrow, Sean, thanks! I think of IWHWSITW as a summer album (albeit a summer night album), and the glow pt. 2 as an autumn album (using autumn not pretentiously, just so no one thinks I am comparing it to a Fall album).

and in mumbly, incomprehensible french!

(but it's still altogether lovely, in small doses.)

"Wooly Mammoth's Absence" (from Seven Songs) is now online here for about a week.

song islands > mt. eerie > it was hot > the glow pt. 2 > live in japan (which should have never come out)

this kind of thing kind of annoys the shit out of me about the microphones/mt eerie too. I understand the scarcity of the earlier stuff because no-one knew who he/they were and things were done in limited runs, but why continue to make very limited pressings of things after you've received this much attention? It's like you're calculatedly playing into the hands of collector scum and screwing your fans. At least get a website and put up digital versions of the songs. We do have the web now!

The vinyl was a gatefold jacket with a "pop up" center which was pretty pathetic. Somebody should get him a Parliament LP to show how it's supposed to be done.

personally, i think the microphones/mt erie are pleasant enough, but not so hot live. little wings and karl blau are ten times the song writers and performers.

certainly the "playing into collector scum" is quite unintentional. the entire anacortes WA community tries to do this large artistic output thing (blau is trying an album a month). due to a large following of wiener kids with fledgling labels, elvrum has the opportunity to release a lot of records so he just goes ahead and does. I would say that the "labels" are to blame for the playing into collector scum.

That said, I am sure the "seven songs" will find a wider release. So will the 2 songs 12" record that was included in the gallery show. That was just a quick pressing so he'd have something new to sell on the australia tour.

In any case, everything is widely available via soulseek.

Also reviewer dude seem to be under the mistaken impression that the Mount Eerie/Microphones name change involved some kind of lineup change. Hahaha.

the japanese version has a bunch of extra songs

meanwhile Phil made "seven new songs" available for free download at archive.org!

Anyone heard the newish "Wind's Poem" album?

Pretty interesting stuff, Elverum's apparently been inspired by black metal to make something a bit like Xasthur's stuff (according to Pitchfork or summat). Can't say I'm feeling the black metal vibe, but there's certainly some heavy inspiration from drone - which works surprisingly well with his light folksy vocals. The whole thing becomes particularly cool when synths are introduced: check out the variations over some Twin Peaks theme on "Between Two Mysteries". Only resource I could find was on Spotify:

http://open.spotify.com/user/flinkgutt/playlist/7MVU6nPD7oS2CXYzDlbgzM

For those of us in the US, the album's on Lala too:

http://lala.com/zzes

the new record is WONDERFUL. love this murmured approach to black metal, and the new textures Phil's's found with marimbas and synths.

the total revelation is the crazy fucking doomy r&b tune called "Ancient Questions" -- ONLY that it sucks in my mp3 version! the vinyl kicks, but the mp3/cd mastering leaves it feeling floppy, with none of the oomph.

I saw them live a few months ago, and really liked their set, which was apparently stuff from this album.

The closing song on Wind's Poem is one of the best songs I've heard this year, especially when you're walking around on slightly cool, windy nights.

Version of "Wind's Dark Poem", though it sounds a bit too sharp to me.

http://www.box.net/shared/static/yhpm80tamt.mp3

Does anyone know if Clear Moon is only going to be vinyl and digital? I can't seem to find a CD version anywhere, not even direct from his label.

Digital and vinyl only, btw. But Clear Moon and Ocean Roar are both fantastic. I was really disappointed with the direction he took after the album called Mount Eerie, but the last three have really put him back on track.

New record due out in a few weeks.

Enjoying this song and video.

http://www.npr.org/event/music/375880503/first-watch-mount-eerie-this?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

"This" is beautiful, love the backing vocals.