Mount Eerie

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Mount Eerie
Origin Anacortes, Washington, USA
Genre(s) Lo-fi, Black Wooden, Indie pop
Years active 2003 – present
Label(s) P.W. Elverum & Sun
Members
Phil Elverum
This article is about the band named Mount Eerie. For the album Mount Eerie by The Microphones, see Mount Eerie (album). For the town in Illinois, see Mount Erie.

Mount Eerie is an Anacortes, Washington-based band fronted by Phil Elverum. Elverum is the principal member of the band, but he has collaborated with many other musicians on his records.

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[edit] History

Following the release of the The Microphones' Mount Eerie album, Phil Elverum announced that he would dissolve the Microphones moniker, opting instead to record under the name Mount Eerie, after the area in Anacortes, Washington called Mount Erie. Elverum, in an interview with discorder (September 2003), gives 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."

Shortly after this announcement, Live in Japan, recorded during three days during Elverum's tour in Japan in 2003, was released by K Records. Despite the fact that the album contained all new material, the album was credited to 'The Microphones'. The quotation marks contained in the release are credited to the fact that Phil Elverum considered this to neither be a Microphones project, nor a Mount Eerie release.

Since the name change, Elverum has released a few singles, and limited vinyl-only releases. Elverum has also created a 3-LP recording of Mount Eerie titled Live in Copenhagen, released by Burnt Toast Vinyl in late 2004. The first Mount Eerie studio album was "No Flashlight" Songs of the Fulfilled Night, released on Elverum's own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. at What the Heck Fest in Anacortes, WA on July 16, 2005 and commercially released on August 16, 2005. Released domestically on vinyl LP (although the LP version contained a copy of the CD), the album contained an extremely large sheet of paper containing track-by-track liner notes and pictures.

July 2007 marked the release of another ambitious project, Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7 a 132-page, hardcover coffee-table book of his photography, packaged with a 10" record. This book is the first large-scale publication of his photography, and possibly presents closure to the Mount Eerie song cycle started in the album Mount Eerie by the now-defunct Microphones.

[edit] Return to the Microphones?

In January 2007, Elverum released a new 7", "Don't Smoke / Get Off the Internet," credited to the Microphones, prompting rumors of an imminent return to the moniker. Lyrically, the two songs are firmly rooted in themes associated with Mount Eerie (specifically, didacticism and natural living) but the recordings utilize Microphones-associated choral arrangements, differing them from the more solitary Mount Eerie material.

[edit] New album

On May 1st, 2008, Elverum announced through his website that a "colossal sounding new album" by Mount Eerie entitled Wind's Poem, would be released in spring 2009.[1]

[edit] Discography

See also: The Microphones discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] Live albums, EPs, compilations and singles

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