On previous Microphones albums, Phil Elvrum has explored themes of man communing with nature, describing serene catastrophic entanglements with wind, sea and woods. Mount Eerie is a concept album that takes it up a notch, the self-searching for identity within a universal context. Divided into five parts, it is named after Mt. Erie, a peak that dominates Fidalgo Island where Phil grew up. This drama tells the tale of one person striking out into the wilderness to unearth the face beneath the disguise, and ...   [ read more ]

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SOUND SAVER. Bringing the recording studio to the bedroom is the tenet to stalwarts of the lo-fi movement. Usually this maneuver is out of necessity; only subsequently does the resourcefulness of bedroom 4-track recording become an aesthetic embraced as tantamount to the warmth and honesty only such intimacy can provide. So what happens when the studio is available, anytime, yet the artist discovers that the cozy asylum of a bedroom sound simply cannot be sacrificed?

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VINYL FORMAT. The Microphones continue to boldly expand and expound upon the possibilities of analog recording. Their third full-length for K and fifth overall, is a sprawling 67-minute masterwork, sure to earn the group the undisputed title of experimental pop's MVPs. Impeccable songwriting laden with hooks, a widely varied palette of instrumentation, potent lyrical paintings, and interspersed sound tweaks that serve to lace everything together. Comparisons to the Elephant 6 collective aside, "The Glow Pt...   [ read more ]

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