Mount Eerie
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| Mount Eerie | |
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| Origin | Anacortes, Washington, USA |
| Years active | 2004 – present |
| Genres | Indie pop |
| Labels | KNW-YR-OWN Elsinor Records K Records P.W. Elverum & Sun |
| Members | Phil Elverum |
- This article is about the band named Mount Eerie. For the album Mount Eerie by The Microphones, see Mount Eerie (album). For the town in Illinois, see Mount Erie.
Mount Eerie is an Anacortes, Washington-based band fronted by Phil Elverum. Elverum is the principal member of the band, but he has collaborated with many other musicians on his records.
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[edit] History
Following the release of the The Microphones' Mount Eerie album, Phil Elverum announced that he would dissolve the Microphones moniker, opting instead to record under the name "Mount Eerie". Elverum, in an interview with discorder (September 2003), gives his reasons for this change: "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."
Shortly after this announcement, Live in Japan, recorded during three days during Elverum's tour in Japan in 2003, was released by K Records. Despite the fact that the album contained all new material, the album was credited to The Microphones. It is widely believed to be the last official Microphones release.
Since the name change, Elverum has released a few singles, printed in limited numbers and sold only at his live shows. Elverum has also created an ambitious 3-LP recording of Mount Eerie titled Live in Copenhagen, released by Burnt Toast Vinyl in late 2004. The first Mount Eerie studio album was No Flashlight, released on Elverum's own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd at the "What the Heck Fest" In Anacortes, WA on July 16, 2005 and commercially released on August 16, 2005. Released on both vinyl and compact disc (although the vinyl version contained a burned copy of the CD), the record contained an extremely large sheet of paper containing track-by-track liner notes and pictures.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- No Flashlight: Songs of the Fulfilled Night (2005)
- "Drums from No Flashlight" (2005)
- "Singers" (2005)
[edit] EPs, Singles, Compilations, etc.
- Seven New Songs of Mount Eerie CD-R (2004)
- "Two New Songs of Mount Eerie" 12" (2004)
- Mount Eerie Live in Copenhagen Triple LP (2004)
- "Mount Eerie Dances With Wolves" 12" (2005) (re-release of "Two New Songs of Mount Eerie")
- "Twenty Bees" 7" (2005)
- "Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie" (2005)
- "I Whale" 7" (2006)
