Funny, because sometimes I put this album on when I go to sleep because the music itself is so hauntingly beautiful.
Never listened to the Microphones or any other Elverum projects for that matter but I checked this out yesterday and it knocked me on my ass. Just unbelievable grief in the lyrics. I love this album, though it is very tough to listen to.
my jaw hit the floor and made a hole to china when i the first time i heard the You are the sunset stanza
This is my aoty despite only listening to it 3 times. I still cant get into the glow for whatever reason--il keep trying.
I also want to say that the first time i listened to this album i got only half way through and needed to stop because it made my feel physically ill.
The two passages from this record's lyrics that I keep thinking about: I can't remember, were you into Canada geese? Is it significant, these hundreds on the beach? Or were they just hungry for mid-migration seaweed? What about foxgloves? Is that a flower you liked? I can't remember; you did most of my remembering for me. And now I stand untethered, in a field full of wild foxgloves, wondering if you're there, or if a flower means anything. And what could anything mean In this crushing absurdity? and There is nothing to learn. Her absence is a scream saying nothing. Conceptual emptiness was cool to talk about, back before I knew my way around these hospitals. I would like to forget and go back into imagining.
I cannot stop listening to this album as of late. When I Take out the Garbage at Night might be one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. Also, this super random, but if you like this, you might like Karen O’s work on the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack. I get a similar vibe.
Triple post, but I’m pretty certain this has usurped Clear Moon as my favorite Mount Eerie album. This is just one of the most powerful albums I’ve ever heard and I’ll probably never hear anything like it again.
I'm late and only halfway through but this is intense and heavy and beautiful and I am very sad and gonna be for a while That Sunset line is so gorgeous
Lately, this has been my favorite song on the album. It's unreal. This and When I Take Out The Garbage At Night
I now wield the power to transform a grocery store aisle into a canyon of pity and confusion and mutual aching to leave As far as I am concerned, that's genius
He’s been playing a couple new songs called “Distortion” and “Tintin In Tibet” This video is months old, but I didn’t realize he’s played anything new
When I saw him a couple months ago half the set was songs from this album and the other half was all new stuff.
I think I mentioned it before, but there is a video on youtube from a show in Poland from a month ago or so, and according to the guy who posted the video Phil told him that there will be a new album in March.