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Someone's there and then they're not

“Real Death”, the first song off Mount Eerie’s "A Crow Looked at Me", deals with the death of his wife, the illustrator and musician Geneviève Castrée, and his life after. Phil has talked in an interview about some motifs of this song: "For me, looking at the songs that I used to make, before this, I was more deeply a symbol-user. The older songs are a lot about looking at the world around me and finding meaning in these things that are just things. Light is hitting the mountain in a beautiful way. Is that just the light of the sun in space hitting this rock and snow … read more
“Real Death”, the first song off Mount Eerie’s "A Crow Looked at Me", deals with the death of his wife, the illustrator and musician Genevi… read more
“Real Death”, the first song off Mount Eerie’s "A Crow Looked at Me", deals with the death of his wife, the illustrator and musician Geneviève Castrée, and his life after. Phil… read more

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Mount Eerie represents the latest evolution of Phil Elverum's musical vision. Formerly known as The Microphones, Elverum began Mount Eerie in 2003, maintaining his previous project's subtle, lo-fi, and lyrically dense fuzz-folk aesthetic. Elverum explained this change in an 2003 interview with Discorder, asserting that "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." As Mount Eerie, Phil typically works with synthesizers, guitars, drums, and the accenting… read more
Mount Eerie represents the latest evolution of Phil Elverum's musical vision. Formerly known as The Microphones, Elverum began Mount Eerie in 2003, maintaining his previous project&#… read more
Mount Eerie represents the latest evolution of Phil Elverum's musical vision. Formerly known as The Microphones, Elverum began Mount Eerie in 2003, maintaining his previous project's subtle, lo-fi, and lyrically dense fuzz-… read more

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