About Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie is the musical project of American songwriter and producer Phil Elverum. Elverum is the principal member of the band, but has collaborated with many other musicians on his records and in live performances. Most of Mount Eerie's releases have been issued on Elverum's label P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd., and feature highly detailed packaging with his own artwork.
Following the release of the Microphones' Mount Eerie album, Elverum announced that he would no longer use the Microphones moniker, opting instead to record under the name Mount Eerie, after the area in Anacortes, Washington called Mount Erie. In an interview with CITR-FM's Discorder in September 2003, Elverum gave his reasons for this change: "Mount Eerie is a new project. The Microphones was completed, or at least at a good stopping point. I did it because I am ready for new things. I am new." Around this time, Elverum also changed the spelling of his own surname .
The first Mount Eerie releases included a limited edition CD of new recordings , a 12" EP recorded live to acetate with local musicians during an Australian tour , and a live triple album released by Burnt Toast Vinyl in late 2004 .
Elverum returned to his hometown of Anacortes after spending several years living in Olympia, Washington whilst recording for K Records, and established his own label and imprint, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. The first official Mount Eerie studio album in Phil's eyes was No Flashlight, released in August 2005. The original pressing featured an extremely large fold-out sleeve with extensive footnotes and explanations. Following pressings of the album feature more simple packaging with the original liner notes and poster absent.
Elverum has continued to tour and record prolifically in recent years, to considerable critical acclaim. Noteworthy releases have included Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7 , Lost Wisdom , and Wind's Poem . In 2012, Elverum released two albums, Clear Moon and Ocean Roar. He was also chosen to perform at Jeff Mangum's All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, England. An admirer of Neutral Milk Hotel, he stated it was an "honor to be chosen." In 2013, Elverum was a part of the Primavera Sound line-up. A new Mount Eerie album entitled Sauna was released on February 2, 2015.
In January 2017, the song "Real Death" was released from the forthcoming album A Crow Looked at Me. A second single, "Ravens", was released on February 15. The album was written and recorded in 2017 shortly following the death of Geneviève Castrée, Elverum's wife. On March 24, A Crow Looked at Me was released to high critical praise. Exclaim!'s Alex Hudson scored the album a 9 out of 10, calling the record an "emotionally nuanced meditation on death that is both heartbreaking and hopeful."
After touring North America in the summer of 2017, Elverum played songs from A Crow Looked at Me across Europe and Australasia. The second of these shows became , a live recording eventually released in September 2018 and was well received by Pitchfork who noted "the most striking thing about is that, even after so many performances, these songs sound as raw as they did when Elverum first committed them to paper and tape".
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