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Apr 4, 2017 · It’s a phrase Phil Elverum, who performs under the name Mount Eerie (and, earlier, The Microphones) scatters like ashes throughout his gripping new album, A Crow Looked at Me. These words do...
Mar 21, 2017 · Entertainment • Music. Beyond Grief: How Mount Eerie Made an Album About His Wife’s Death. "Conceptual emptiness was cool to talk about, back before I knew my way around these hospitals." By...
Mar 14, 2018 · March 14, 2018. A recent article at New Zealand’s The Spinoff compared Mount Eerie’s 2017 album, A Crow Looked at Me, to, among other things, the Holocaust poetry of Primo Levi. The headline...
Aug 7, 2020 · “The name distinction isn’t a factor,” says Phil Elverum over a Google Meet video chat. In his eyes, The Microphones is Mount Eerie and Mount Eerie is The Microphones.
Death Is Real: Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Copes With Unspeakable Tragedy. A day in the life of the singer-songwriter following the death of his wife, Geneviève. By Jayson Greene. March 13,...
Mar 21, 2017 · All photos by Jordan Stead. Not long ago, Phil Elverum ’s primary focus was on crafting the deeply atmospheric, expansive music that marked the records he released under the moniker Mount Eerie. He and his wife Geneviève, a visual artist and musician, lived blissfully intertwined creative and domestic existences, recently welcoming a daughter.
Mount Erie, elevation 1,273 feet, located in the west central area of Fidalgo Island, was named by Wilkes for the Battle of Lake Erie, won by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812. Mount Erie is composed primarily of 167 million year old diorite, a hard igneous rock favored by rock climbers who climb the mountain’s south side cliffs.
