Mount Eerie: Sauna [xrr rating=4.0/5]Washington’s Phil Elverum possesses that intestinal drive that so many of us wish we had come 3 p.m. at the office job or 3 a.m. when still looking to put the final touches on some impossible-to-grasp hook. When not writing, recording and performing under his avant-folk alias Mount Eerie, Elverum keeps busy with other artistic endeavors like penning dark … Read More
The Microphones: It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water (Reissue) [xrr rating=4.0/5]As if Washington’s native noise-folk son weren’t admirably prolific already, now resurfacing is a characteristically ephemeral Microphones release from more than a decade ago (their progenitor, Phil Elverum, currently styled Mount Eerie) – 2000’s It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water. Last year saw the staggered issue of the “Clear Moon/Ocean Roar” duo of LPs, and this fall … Read More
