Dawn (Mount Eerie album)

Dawn
Studio album by Mount Eerie
Released November 1, 2008
Genre Lo-fi indie folk
Length 41:47
Label P. W. Elverum & Sun
(ELV 017)
Producer Phil Elverum
Mount Eerie chronology

Lost Wisdom
(2008)		 Dawn
(2008)		 Wind's Poem
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]
Tiny Mix Tapes [2]
Sputnikmusic [3]

Dawn is the third full-length album by Mount Eerie. It was officially released 1 November 2008 on P. W. Elverum & Sun.[4] The songs were all written by Phil Elverum during the winter of 2002–03, which he spent alone in a cabin in a remote part of Norway.[4][5]

The album was released on CD concurrently with an 144-page hardcover book and 16 color photo cards.[4] The book includes Elverum's journal entries and drawings from his Norway trip.[4][5] The book is bound in paper that gives the feeling of wood.[4] The album was also released as just an LP packaged with Elverum self-portraits drawn from the reflection of a window in the cabin in Norway.[4]

Tracks

Many of the songs appear on earlier releases by Mount Eerie. "Moon Sequel" is a follow-up to The Microphones' song "The Moon", and it carries the same melody. The song "Voice in Headphones" (which also appears on Lost Wisdom, released a month earlier) reprises the chorus from Björk's song "Undo", over a different verse. Elverum had previously covered Björk's "All Is Full of Love" on the 2001 Microphones album Blood.

Track listing

All songs written by Phil Elverum.

  1. "It Wasn’t The Hunting" – 2:49
  2. "Cold Mountain" – 2:48
  3. "Moon Sequel" – 2:29
  4. "I Have Been Told That My Skin Is Exceptionally Smooth" – 1:32
  5. "I Say "No"" – 2:05
  6. "Moon, I Already Know" – 1:20
  7. "With My Hands Out" – 1:43
  8. "A Show of Hands" – 1:46
  9. "Woolly Mammoth's Mighty Absence" – 3:24
  10. "My Burning" – 1:39
  11. "Great Ghosts" – 3:07
  12. "Climb Over" – 2:37
  13. "We Squirm" – 1:29
  14. "Voice in Headphones" – 1:52
  15. "Who?" – 2:11
  16. "Dead of Night" – 2:43
  17. "See Me" – 1:57
  18. "Log in the Waves" – 1:57
  19. "Goodbye Hope" – 2:25

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Tiny Mix Tapes review
  3. ↑ Sputnikmusic review
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Dawn" (pdf). pwelverumandsun.com. Anacortes, Washington: P. W. Elverum & Sun. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Solarski, Matthew (2008-07-16). "Mount Eerie Talks Julie Doiron Collab, Tons of Releases". pitchforkmedia.com. Pitchfork Media, Inc. Retrieved 2008-09-17.