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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 (disambiguation).
Mount Eerie 
Performing in Urbana, Illinois in 2007Background information Origin Anacortes, Washington, USA Genres Lo-fi
Indie folkYears active 2003–present Labels P.W. Elverum & Sun Members Phil Elverum 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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History
Following the release of The Microphones' Mount Eerie album, Phil Elverum announced that he would no longer use the Microphones moniker, opting instead to record under the name Mount Eerie, after the area in Anacortes, Washington called Mount Erie. In an interview with CITR-FM's Discorder in September 2003, Elverum gave 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."[1]
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'. The quotation marks contained in the release are credited to the fact that Phil Elverum considered this to neither be a Microphones project, nor a Mount Eerie release.
Elverum at UCLA in May 2004 (a few months after switching from The Microphones to Mount Eerie). Photo by David Greenwald.
Since the name change, Elverum has released a few singles, and limited vinyl-only releases. Elverum has also created a 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" Songs of the Fulfilled Night, released on Elverum's own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. at What the Heck Fest in Anacortes, WA on July 16, 2005 and commercially released on August 16, 2005. Released domestically on vinyl LP (although the LP version contained a copy of the CD), the album contained an extremely large sheet of paper containing track-by-track liner notes and pictures.
July 2007 marked the release of another ambitious project, Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7 a 132-page, hardcover coffee-table book of his photography, packaged with a 10" record. This book is the first large-scale publication of his photography.
The song Goodbye Hope appears in the 2010 film FAUX by Christopher Michael Beer.[2]
Discography
LPs
- "No Flashlight" Songs of the Fulfilled Night (2005 – 12" LP with CD)
- Lost Wisdom (2008 - LP/CD recorded with Julie Doiron and Frederick Squire)
- Dawn (2008 - Book of journal entries written in 2002/2003 by Elverum along with a CD of songs written during the same period)
- Wind's Poem (2009 - 12" LP)
EPs and other albums
- Seven New Songs of "Mount Eerie" (2004 – CD-R/MP3 & OGG)
- Live in Copenhagen (2004 – 3 12" LPs)
- Mount Eerie Dances with Wolves a.k.a. Two New Songs of "Mount Eerie" (2004/2005 – 12" LP)
- The Drums from "No Flashlight" by Mt. Eerie (2005 – 12" LP)
- SINGERS (2005 – 12" LP with CD)
- Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie (2005 – 12" LP with CD)
- Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7 (2007 – 132 pg. hardcover book with 10" picture disc)
- Black Wooden Ceiling Opening (2008 – 10" LP with CD)
- White Stag (2009 – CDR with poster)
- Black Wooden (2009 - LP and CD)
- Song Islands vol. 2 (2010 - 2x LP + Download)
Singles
- "Twenty Bees" (2005 – 7", limited to twenty copies)
- "I Whale" (2006 – 7")
References
External links
- P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. (Elverum's own label)
- The Microphones / Mount Eerie at K Records
- Mt. Eerie Preservation Society – defunct fansite
- Message board for Mt. Eerie Preservation Society
- Get Off The Internet Society – updated fansite
- KNW-YR-OWN Records
The Microphones Adam Forkner • Amber Bell • Anna Oxygen • Bronwyn Holm • Calvin Johnson • Dennis Driscoll • Jenn Kliese • Karl Blau • Kyle Field • Mikhaela Maricich • Mirah Zeitlyn Studio albums Microphone (1996) • X-Ray Means Woman (1996) • Wires and Cords (1997) • Tests (1998) • Don't Wake Me Up (1999) • Window (2000) • It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water (2000) • The Glow Pt. 2 (2001) • Mount Eerie (2003)Miscellaneous albums Blood (2001) • Little Bird Flies into a Big Black Cloud (2002) • Song Islands (2002) • Headwaters: An Attempted Explanation of Mount Eerie (2003) • Live in Japan (2004)Singles "Bass Drum Dream" (1998) • "Feedback (Life, Love, Loop)" (1999) • "Moon Moon" (1999) • "I Can't Believe You Actually Died" (2001) • "The Moon" (2001) • "Lanterns" (2002) • "Don't Smoke" / "Get Off the Internet" (2007)Mount Eerie Studio albums "No Flashlight": Songs of the Fulfilled Night (2005) • Lost Wisdom (2008) • Dawn (2008) • Wind's Poem (2009)Miscellaneous albums EPs Seven New Songs of "Mount Eerie" (2004) • Mount Eerie Dances with Wolves (2004) • Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7 (2007) • Black Wooden Ceiling Opening (2008)Singles "Twenty Bees" (2005) • "I Whale" (2006) • "Through the Trees" (2009)Other related acts Record labels Categories:- American indie rock groups
- K Records artists
- Musical groups from Washington (state)
- Musical groups established in 2003
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