PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
These songs may be threadbare, but together Elverum and Doiron have made the most intimate and compelling Mount Eerie record to date.
who killed the mixtape? (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
'you swan, go on' by Mount Eerie + Julie Doiron +Fred Squire {mp3} [ BUY ] I've been kinda obsessed with this song for awhile, and today I keep going back to it more than ever. So short, yet so perfect... This comes off the 'Lost Wisdom' album collaboration between Phil Elverum , the man behind 'Mount Eerie/Microphones' , and Julie Doiron (ex- eric's trip ) Buy this album. It maybe my favorite release...
Said the Gramophone (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire - "Voice in Headphones" . Bjork - "Undo" . Writing about a song can make it less than it is. But I don't know a kinder way to explain the story of "Voice in Headphones". This is a song about how recorded music - particularly a song called "Undo", by Bjork, - makes Mount Eerie cry. He borrows "Undo"'s chorus, gathers friends to yearningly yell it. "Voice...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
photos by Lori Baily Mount Eerie opened for Why? at Bowery Ballroom last night (Sept 18, 2008). Tonight the show is in a church w/ Julie Doiron & Woods. More info HERE...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Of Montreal - Nonpareil of Favor (new MP3) (via) Mount Eerie Mount Eerie (songwriter/producer/Microphone Phil Elverum) is set to release the new LP Lost Wisdom, October 7 on his P.W. Elverum & Sun label. The album...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The deadline for submissions to Canada’s Hockey Anthem Challenge is this Sunday, and since I’m fairly certain this one isn’t gonna win, and have yet to locate any entires from Joey Shithead, Julie Doiron or Randy Bachman, I’d like to get the readers of this blog behind my good friends in The Two Koreas. Now [...]
Captain Obvious (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
New Wax Lo-fi genius Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie/Microphones fame is set to release Lost Wisdom in early October on his own imprint P.W. Elverum & Sun. The album is a collaborative effort with Canadian singer/songwriter Julie Doiron and her guitarist Fred Squire. Recorded in just a few days in Phil's hometown of Anacortes, Washington, Lost Wisdom has no-frills production and minimal overdubbing. What...
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Photo by David Greenwald Both Lost Wisdom -- Mount Eerie/Phil Elverum's collaboration with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire -- and his solo acoustic Dawn are now available in the Mount Eerie store . Both are tender and frail and gorgeous. To be quite honest, they're the albums I've always hoped Phil would record: bare-boned acoustic affairs with just enough music to fill up the room, guitars and voices...
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Photo by David Greenwald Billy Joel 's oft-ignored The Stranger entered The Canon, Examined . I posted new jamz from The Tallest Man on Earth , Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire , and an accompanying Mt. Eerie video from the Rawkblog.tv archives. Jon Brion went to Amoeba ; I went to the American Apparel Flea Market . Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist looks like the best movie ever made,...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The Pop Montreal festival, slated for Oct. 1-5, definitely has one of the more mishmashy bills I've seen from a multi-day, multi-act event this year, with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Burt Bacharach, Hot Chip, Wire, Silver Apples, Julie Doiron, the Wedding Present, and Headlights among the many, many acts that are confirmed so far. (Please somebody get Bacharach and Cave together for something, anything...
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Photo by David Greenwald Call this new collaboration with Julie Doiron whatever you want, Phil Elverum , but it's totally the song formerly known as "Let's Get Into the Romance" -- a gem of Phil's '03 tour that appeared on the Singers LP and probably elsewhere in various forms. This is its best yet. Elverum's voice quivers and nervously holds hands with Doiron's own frail melody, and the production...
Paper Thin Walls Bullhorn (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
You hear it... eventually.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
A forgotten, quiet album gets a second chance.
IndieMuse.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Phil Elverum (of the Microphones and Mount Eerie fame) has collaborated with Julie Dorion and Fred Squire (of Eric’s Trip fame) on a new upcoming album “Lost Wisdom” due October 7th. I have a good feeling about this release after only hearing only one track “Flaming Home” which I have provided for you today. Phil [...]
The Fader Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Because we are cool and get stuff way before it comes out (booyah, common people) we have been listening incessantly to the upcoming Mount Eerie + Julie Doiron (and this other guy Fred Squire but we're not sure who he is) album Lost Wisdom . There is a song called "What?" with the lyric "Newborn babies come to life on my face/ they say ta-da!" What? Exactly. There is also a really simple part where...
