#phil elverum

[marygoldz205]

another phil elverum related thing because i love his music to death. the pull sounds like if you asked csh to make a song that sounds like an old microphones song. am i alone in this

[coyotetg]

Phil Elverum - Various Projects

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

That poem was on the cover of my album A Crow Looked at Me, for very personal reasons. My wife who died, Geneviève, had a postcard with that poem letter-pressed on it tacked to the wall in her studio. I don’t even know where she got it. She was pen-pals with Joanne, she wrote to her… They were even working on a long-form zine together. It was going to be called Old People (Joanne hated the name). Geneviève had the idea of publishing an interview zine, focusing on older working artists that were still engaged in craft. We drove down to Bolinas and saw Joanne the last few years of her life. Anyway, I was cleaning out Geneviève’s studio after she died, some months after, and that poem was on the wall. It struck me as being relevant to what was happening. Life and death, posterity, present and the past. I took a picture and used it as the album cover. Years later, I realized it: Oh, weird, that album has this other title on the cover. It has this title, Night Palace on it, as a second title. Maybe I need to make an album called Night Palace to use up that seed that has been planted. It’s not even about that poem resonating beyond that one record, it’s those words, “Night Palace,” they’re so resonant and powerful. There’s a lot to be explored there. That’s the zone I’ve been in the last few years. I’m not exactly sure what this is, this “Night Palace” thing—or this like “Mount Eerie” thing. These different, resonant words that have a feeling; it’s distinct to me but isn’t easily articulated. That’s my art process, trying to articulate this thing that feels big and important to me. But you asked how I got into Joanne Kyger! I’m into her scene of poets. Late Beats, the Californian, back-to-the-land poets: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Lew Welch. The countercultural movement of the 60’s and 70’s, and the Pacific Northwest contingent. I remember being a kid and seeing these older poets around and knowing this cool thing was happening. It does feel personal to me. In a way, it’s part of my lineage.

Phil Elverum

[hankwriting]

Exile Premonition

after Phil Elverum

When you’re gone I will look for you

in my room.

I will turn over blankets,

check behind pillows,

kick open closet doors.

When you’re gone I will contain

your memory.

It will be my prisoner,

locked beneath my bed,

kicking at the cage.

Come back

so I can set it free.

[hypnorico]

Not many can claim they've made an album with this perfect of an opener!

[slackwire]

Song of the Week 11/15/2024

Mount Eerie - I Walk

The best Mt Eerie songs sound like taking a walk in the woods just after it's rained. This one starts out that way before exploding into something else entirely.

[saladgl0ve]

banger

[femmeterypolka]

phil elverum answers the important questions

[o-reviews-media]

Night Palace - Mount Eerie

review!!!

Phil's done it again!!

I couldn't wait for this album to come out - as every project elverum has released I've adored - and this one was no fucking exception. I think that this album definitely really shines on the second half of the album, but I wouldn't want the first half cut just to get to there. it all has its place and it works so so beautifully. Phil is just such a beautiful writer and musician; the stuff he is saying on this record is just... oh man. what have we done to this beautiful world we live in... --- some favorite lines I can recall: On I Spoke With a Fish: I told a fish: "What you see as a palace is running water" The fish said: "No. What you see as those mountains is flowing matter" I said: "OK" --- On November Rain: They keep their outside light on though I guess to let everyone else know "Keep away, this patch of night sky I also claim as mine"

But don't they realize All our stolen wealth is built on screaming bones?

In their lights that dot the hillside I see blinking eyes --- like the entirety of Demolition; but this is a strong one: "I moved a little bit away from the town of Anacortes where circling military jets roar their reminder "There's wars. This peace you breathe is flimsy. We rule." I bite the inside of my cheek and sidestep mere despair at the gnashing human world And go downstairs in the dark" --- Favorite Tracks: Swallowed Alive, I Spoke With a Fish, Non-Metaphorical Decolonization, November Rain, Demolition

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

rym

[bandcampsnoop]

11/8/24.

I know this is an obvious post, but Mount Eerie "Night Palace" is just so good. Phil Elverum's return to Microphones "The Glow Part 2" epicness is not only an exhilarating listen, it's pretty fun and catchy throughout.

My favorite on first listen was "Non-Metaphorical Decolonization" which starts off like a Yo La Tengo krautrock long-player. Then it transitions into class Mount Eerie/Microphones. I've always thought that Elverum's sound and voice recall Grandaddy, The Mountain Goats and C. Strøm.

Elverum (Anacortes, Washington) has had a long career - I'm happy to see he's releasing his own work (P.W. Elverum & Sun) and reaping the just rewards of a career dedicated to making music on his own terms and timetable.

[marygoldz205]

i would pay such a ludicrous and impossible ammount of money to see phil elverum, adrianne lenker and will toledo collab.

[cacophonouscatharsis]

[yr-bed]

Phil Elverum

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

I wanted to have the book come out first without mentioning the album, to let people experience it in that mode, with the phantom music of how the songs might sound in their own minds as they read. Then later, when the album comes out, they find they had imagined it totally different. The clash of preconception and reality is inherently interesting. I’ve had that experience, reading other people’s lyrics or reading a poem and then hearing a recording of the poet reading or singing it. It’s always different than I imagined it. I love that feeling. Or cases where you read the lyrics and then listen to the album, and you see what’s written is different than what is sung… Sometimes it’s an error, or maybe they changed something in the studio, or whatever. I love that triangulation of a third meaning, where those two converge. It opens the whole thing up in an interesting way.

Phil Elverum

[meetingpoints]

[years-of-sl4ught3r]

The Microphones- The Moon

I drove up to the city at night And found the place where you grew up And then where you stayed And then we walked around and stayed up late Under city lights, and I spent the night Next to you in the house where you grew up Next to you, I miraculously woke up In your parents' house I lied in bed with you

I went back to feel alone there I went back to wipe it clean I took the lights and radio towers out of my dreams