On mount eeries latest effort, phil elverum managest to transform is usual sounds and emotions into a repetitive, droney, and sometimes ambient musical experience. Phil elverum recording engineer, john golden mastering. For now, however, he has given us clear moon, an album that makes a vast, cool sanctuary of itself and quietly beckons you in. Clear moon is the fifth studio album by mount eerie, released may 22, 2012. Clear moon is the first of two albums to be released by mount eerie in 2012. Clear moon licensed to youtube by the orchard music on behalf of p. Earlier this year, mount eerie s phil elverum, writer of the bside get off the internet, committed a genuinely ironic act. Previous mount eerie works have dabbled with black metal, lofi krautrock, fuzzy postrock textures and autotune experimentation but, aside from a distorted drone on the penultimate number, there is little of that sonic playfulness here. Reviews of clear moon by mount eerie, washingtons phil elverum with the first of two albums in 2012, this one a combination of indie folk, shoegaze, lofi and more.
This is the first of two fulllengths lined up to be released this year, both recorded in his new studio, a repurposed church in anacortes, wa. Phil elverums fifth album under the name of mount eerie, clear moon is perhaps phils most droney, spacey album yet. Features song lyrics for mount eeries clear moon album. Mount eerie is the fourth and final studio album by american indie rock band the microphones. Inscrutable and transfixing, plainspoken and unknowable, it feels. The microphonesmount eeries profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates. With clear moon, elverums first of two records this year, he looks to the night sky, trying to parse out the hazy language in clouds passing over, as he passes under, standing in the parking. Mount eeries journeys into the sublime arent just philosophical, because clear moon is about turning the possibility of new experiences into new realities. Though the majority of its tracks come from mount eeries dual releases from last year the stunning clear moon and ocean roar some cuts stretch back to. Moon township is in allegheny, pennsylvania in the mid atlantic region of the usa. Elverum is the principal member of the band, but he has collaborated with many other musicians on his records. Lyrics to clear moon by mount eerie from the clear moon album including song video, artist biography, translations and more. Experiments, gimmick and concept albums, bands and labels. I would recommend to anyone who is into downtempo stuff and looking for something new but clear moon is by no means an album that the average consumer needs to rush out and buy.
Payment security we take the security of our website and of your transactions extremely seriously. Mount eerie a crow looked at me mp3 album download. Inscrutable and transfixing, plainspoken and unknowable, it. Mount eerie mount eerie is an anacortes, washingtonbased band fronted by phil elverum.
Secretly canadian music publishing, amra, bmi broadcast music inc. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. More so than many artists, phil elverums mount eerie albums feel like chapters in a larger continuing work, and clear moon itself the first half of a twoalbum project released in 2012 is no exception. It is the first of the two albums released by mount eerie in 2012. Phil elvrums music has always existed in its own, intransigent world.
Phil elvrum described ocean roar as a counterpoint to the soft synth walls and landscape pondering of clear moon, presenting the opposite of that albums clear glints of awareness. Clear moon feels isolated and almost at one with nature. Lyrics to the place i live by mount eerie from the clear moon album including song video, artist biography, translations and more. Elvrum cited burzum, terry riley and steve reich as influences on the album. Sole member phil elverum described clear moon as the lighter of the two albums. Much of the album was recorded while his daughter was asleep so elverum uses mostly acoustic guitars and. Musically, there are few distinct differences between elverums aesthetic as the microphones and now as mount eerie. The microphonesmount eerie listen and stream free music. Through dark, dense arrangements with lonely and introverted vocals, elverum explores the infinite boundaries of his newly created persona. An excellent session broadcast last week in the mark riley show on bbc 6 music. Released by k records in 2003, the album is named after the mountain on fidalgo island where elvrum spent much of his childhood. While these songs are somewhat gentler than the evocative black metal assault of elverums previous album, the mighty winds poem, clear moon feels like it picks up immediately after that.
Ocean roar is the second of two albums released by mount eerie in 2012. These are strange computer recordings of preexisting mount eerie songs, mostly from clear moon and ocean roar 2012, made postalbumrelease as exploratory and instructional demos to teach the. Moon township zip code pa the zipcode for moon township is. Heres more plodding, plaintive, pacific northwest pabulum from phil elverum. The two records vary slightly in their mood and styles, though are clear companion pieces. Even now as i type, it seems futile to describe the truly original experience that is this album. The glimmer on empty water, the moon in an empty sky, sharp symmetry, a razor horizontal line, a circle. The two core members of denmarks quadron previously worked together as part of the boom clap bachelors but have struck out on their own with a blend of nusoul and popwise rnb. No flashlight marks mount eeries first debut long player. From its outset, clear moon suggests a retreat from winds poems death metal approach. Plug research reach out from an altered angle with quadrons debut album of electronic soul music. Phil elverum recently took an extended break from touring to record two albums in a studio he built in a deconsecrated church. Vocals are ably handled by coco, whose style manages to bridge a chasm between nonchalant idib style synth pop and.
Zip codes are used only in the us since the moon is not owned by the us or any other country by international agreement, it would not have a zip code since its not us territory. The album was recorded between october 3, 2010 and january 7, 2012 in anacortes, washington. Issued in a zip lock plastic bag and described as cdr hamburger. Earlier this year, mount eeries phil elverum, writer of the bside get off the internet, committed a genuinely ironic act. Unusually for a band which have been knocking around since the late nineteen seventies they still make interesting records. Microphones frontman phil elvrum began work on the album after a long tour of europe and north america. Once the zip file loaded, i immediately gave it a listen. It feels like elverum is an artist who always manages to surprise even if his style hasnt really changed all that much from his days with the microphones. Phil elverum talks to brandon stosuy about the two albums hes releasing as mount eerie this year, clear moon and ocean roar, both of which continue to. Mount eerie clear moon lyrics and tracklist genius.
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