Nov 01, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 36th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Marc Abbott, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humpries helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 25 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More

Oct 29, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Mount Eerie (aka Phil Elverum) is releasing a new album, Night Palace, this Friday via Elverum’s own P.W. Elverum & Sun label. Now he has shared another song from it, “Non-Metaphorical Decolonization,” and announced some new 2025 tour dates. More

Oct 04, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the 32nd Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Marina Malin, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. It was a very strong week for new tracks, so we considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 14. More

Oct 01, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Mount Eerie (aka Phil Elverum) is releasing a new album, Night Palace, on November 1 via Elverum’s own P.W. Elverum & Sun label. Now he has shared another song from it, “I Saw Another Bird.” More

Sep 03, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Mount Eerie (aka Phil Elverum) has announced a new album, Night Palace, and shared two new songs from it, “Broom of the Wind” and “I Walk,” the former via a music video. More

Feb 08, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Phil Elverum has shared a new 20-minute documentary short entitled There Is No End. The documentary depicts Elverum’s life after losing his wife, Geneviève Castrée, to pancreatic cancer in 2016. It features music from Elverum’s projects The Microphones and Mount Eerie, and was directed by Mattias Evangelista. More

Jun 18, 2020 By Samantha Small

It’s the 20th anniversary of Mirah’s You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This. So of course the seminal album is getting a reissue, due out July 31st via Double Double Whammy. But, that’s not all. Along with the reissue is a tribute album with covers from Mount Eerie, Hand Habits, Half Waif, Palehound, Shamir, Sad13, and Allison Crutchfield—oh my! More

Jun 16, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Phil Elverum first got attention with his project The Microphones, but in recent years he’s been going under the name Mount Eerie. Now he has announced the first album as The Microphones in 17 years, Microphones in 2020, and has shared a teaser trailer for the album. More

Oct 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was another light week, in terms of compelling new songs this week. Hence, just like last week’s list, we only have a Top 8 again. The top two were pretty much a tie. We’re as surprised as you about our #1. More

Oct 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Mount Eerie (aka Phil Elverum) is releasing a new album, Lost Wisdom pt. 2, that’s a collaboration with singer Julie Doiron, on November 8 via P.W. Elverum & Sun. Now he has shared its second single, “Belief pt. 2.” More

Oct 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We had to skip it last week because we were too busy announcing our new print issue, the My Favorite Album Issue with Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the covers (buy it here), and also we weren’t overly inspired by last week’s selection of new tracks. So this week we cover the best songs of the last two weeks. More

Sep 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Mount Eerie (aka Phil Elverum, who also used to record as The Microphones), has announced a new album, Lost Wisdom pt. 2, that’s a collaboration with singer Julie Doiron, and shared its first single, “Love Without Possession.” Mount Eerie has also announced some tour dates featuring Doiron. More

Aug 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mount Eerie (aka Phil Elverum, who used to record as The Microphones), has announced a new live album, (after), and shared a live version of “Soria Moria.” More

Jul 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

In a new cover story with Vanity Fair, actress Michelle Williams has revealed that she has secretly married musician Phil Elverum, who we’ve written about many times and records under the name Mount Eerie (and who used to record as The Microphones). More

Mar 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2018 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine apps Readly and Zinio. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. The issue features Courtney Barnett on the cover. More

Mar 16, 2018 By Michael James Hall

This week’s album of the week serves as a follow-up to the most stark, moving and genuinely heartbreaking records of last year, Mount Eerie‘s A Crow Looked At Me. Charting Phil Elverum’s immediate situation and emotional response to the death of his wife Geneviève in 2016, not long after the birth of the couple’s only child, a daughter, the album was a brutally honest document of death and grief delivered with remarkable, soft, melodic directness. More

Feb 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

It was a crazy good week for new songs. So much so that we could only narrow down this week’s Songs of the Week to 12 tracks, as opposed to our normal 10. Speedy Ortiz almost made the list with “Lucky 88,” the first single off their newly announced new album Twerp Verse, but then it would’ve been 13 songs and we gave into superstition. More

Feb 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mount Eerie, the project of Phil Elverum (who used to record as The Microphones), is releasing a new album, Now Only, on March 16 via P.W. Elverum & Sun. He previously shared its first single, the 11-minute long “Distortion” (which was our #1 Song of the Week). Now he has shared another song from the album, “Tintin in Tibet,” which opens the album. More

Jan 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

2018 is coming on strong with lots of fantastic new tracks this week in our second Songs of the Week post of the year. Like last week, it was definitely a challenge to narrow it down to only 10. Preoccupations, The Spook School, Hinds, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, St. Vincent remixed by Kelly Lee Owens, Eels, and Hinds all could have easily made the Top 10, but it was a competitive week. More

Jan 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mount Eerie, the project of Phil Elverum (who used to record as The Microphones), released an acclaimed album, A Crow Looked At Me, last March via Elverum’s own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun. More

Dec 30, 2017 By Mark Redfern

2016 was regarded as a fairly rough year by many, but 2017 was no walk in the park either. 2016 was mired by the deaths of several beloved musical icons (David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and Sharon Jones among them) and the disappointing and divisive Presidential election, but in 2017 we had to deal with the ramifications of said election (we’d say that roughly 95% of the musicians we interview likely don’t support many, if any, of President Trump’s policies). More

Jul 13, 2017 By Mark Redfern

In the past we’ve avoided posting midyear best albums lists. It seemed somehow impatient and premature to evaluate the year’s albums halfway through. And how do you decide which period the list covers, which arbitrary release date do you work out is the cut off point, as every midyear list seems to cover a different period? But 2017 is a year that demands a partial evaluation. More

May 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Mount Eerie, the project of Phil Elverum (who used to record as The Microphones), released an acclaimed new album, A Crow Looked At Me, back in March via Elverum’s own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun. The album was written after his wife, Geneviève Elverum (née Gosselin and also known as Geneviève Castrée), passed away in July 2016 after losing her fight with pancreatic cancer. Now Elverum has announced some new Mount Eerie tour dates. More

Apr 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version is about to ship out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine apps Zinio and Readly). More

Mar 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Mount Eerie, the project of Phil Elverum (who used to record as The Microphones), is releasing a new album, A Crow Looked At Me, on March 24 via Elverum’s own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun. More

Feb 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Mount Eerie, the project of Phil Elverum (who used to record as The Microphones), is releasing a new album, A Crow Looked At Me, on March 24 via Elverum’s own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun. More

Jan 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Mount Eerie, the project of Phil Elverum (who used to record as The Microphones), has announced a new album and shared a new song. A Crow Looked At Me is due out March 24 via Elverum’s own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun. Below is its first single, “Real Death,” followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art. More

Jan 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Is There Another Language? is a new charity compilation available now via Bandcamp curated by Ben TO Smith of Gezellig Records and Peter McCarville of Best Friend. More

Jul 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Geneviève Elverum (née Gosselin and also known as Geneviève Castrée) passed away yesterday after losing her fight with pancreatic cancer. She was a musician and comic book artist who had recorded as both Woelv and Ô Paon and was the wife of Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie and The Microphones. More

Jul 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie and The Microphones has been seeking donations to help with his the costs of the cancer treatment for his wife, Geneviève Castrée, who is also a musician and has recorded as both Woelv and Ô Paon. More

Jun 02, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Our hearts go out to Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie and The Microphones. He’s seeking donations to help with his the costs of the cancer treatment for his wife, Geneviève Castrée, who is also a musician and has recorded as both Woelv and Ô Paon. More

Dec 21, 2012 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar’s Best of 2012 issue is shipping out to stores and subscribers and will be on newsstands nationwide in January. It features Grimes on the cover and includes interviews with other artists who made an impact in the last year, including Baroness, Julia Holter, Mount Eerie, Tig Notaro, Passion Pit, Purity Ring, Ty Segall, Sleigh Bells, Swans, Trust, Scott Walker, Jessie Ware, Wild Nothing vs. The Go-Betweens, and The xx. Plus the Top 100 albums of the year and Year-End Artist Surveys. More

Nov 13, 2012 By Sara Heflin

For a seemingly undetermined reason, Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie, has decided to put the two albums he released this year, Clear Moon and Ocean Roar, onto the same 7-inch release. More

Sep 05, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Yesterday Phil Elvernum, aka Mount Eerie, released Ocean Roar, a full-length companion piece to his first album of 2012, Clear Moon. More

Aug 17, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Having already released one album this year with Clear Moon, Mount Eerie‘s Phil Elverum will soon deliver his second full-length effort in as many months with Ocean Roar. More

Jul 31, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Bringing a little attention back to his excellent LP Clear Moon released earlier this year, Mount Eerie have premiered a contemplative music video for the included song “The Place Lives.” More

Jun 15, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Last month Mount Eerie, aka singer/songwriter Phil Elverum, released Clear Moon, the first of two full-length albums scheduled for release this year. More

May 26, 2012 By Laura Studarus and Mark Redfern

Under the Radar’s June/July 2012 Issue features Yeasayer on the cover as well as interviews with Beach House, Chromatics, Peaking Lights, M. Ward, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Lower Dens, Soulsavers featuring Dave Gahan, Father John Misty vs. Aubrey Plaza, Sigur Rós, Hot Chip, and others. More

Mar 23, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

This year Mount Eerie, the project of singer/songwriter Phil Elverum, will release two new albums. More

May 04, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Northside Festival goes down in Brooklyn June 16-19. In addition to a stellar lineup that includes the likes of Guided By Voices and Beirut and Surfer Blood among others, today they added a special Church series with artists playing at Cecilia’s Church. Performers include Atlas Sound, Woods, Eleanor Friedberger, and Mount Eerie. More

Jun 13, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

The lo-fi experiments of Phil Elverum aren’t just good, they’re downright spooky good! Whether you follow his work with The Microphones or most recently, Mount Eerie, the Anacortes, Washington native is the epitome of the avant-garde lone wolf. You can’t find too many chinks in this guy’s armor. He answers to no one but surrounds himself with likeminded musicians/loners. His third album as Mount Eerie will be most likely linked with 2008’s black metal-like Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP. On August 18th, Elverum will expand upon Black Wooden‘s moody soundscapes with a full-length affair. P.W. Elverum & Sun is releasing Mount Eerie’s third album, Wind’s Poem and get this, it’s being described as his “black metal album.” Totally rad, right?

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Jul 18, 2017 By Matt Fink

Phil Elverum opens A Crow Looked at Me with a clarification. The death of his wife, visual artist and musician Geneviève Castrée, should not be reduced to the inspiration for a set of songs. Nor is it a learning experience, a clarifying opportunity to understand what’s really important in life. More

Sep 24, 2018 By Michael James Hall

Following the release of Phil Elverum’s perfect, poetic eulogy to his late wife, 2017’s A Crow Looked At Me, he embarked on a tour that included not only the first performances of several of those songs but also a second-half preview of what would follow on 2018’s masterful, stoic Now Only. More

Mar 15, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

Under his Mount Eerie guise, Phil Elverum released one of the most powerful albums of recent times, A Crow Looked at Me, laying bare unmanageable grief following the loss of his wife Geneviève to cancer. More

Mar 24, 2017 By Hays Davis

A Crow Looked at Me is an unflinching look at life going on after the loss of someone dear, as much about love as it is about death. More

Feb 19, 2015 By Mack Hayden

Phil Elverum just can’t stop recording music and his latest album as Mount Eerie, Sauna, is proof we should be thankful for that. He’s been doing indie folk since before it was even a thing. He’s of the same graduating class as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Jeff Mangum, Songs: Ohia, and Sun Kil Moon. More

Nov 22, 2013 By JR Moores

Phil Elverum recently posted a response on Tumblr to a complaint from somebody who’d bought an album from the Mount Eerie merch table and was disappointed to discover it sounded nothing like the set they’d played on that particular night. “A fundamental aspect of art is that it is wild and unpredictable,” replied Elverum, More

Sep 27, 2012 By J. Pace

Ocean Roar is the second in a two-part release from Phil Elverum this year, the companion to Clear Moon. As the titles imply, that installment was a bit more delicate. It offered a cozy warmth around the hearth, away from the northwesterly natural onslaught Elverum always paints so perfectly. More

May 22, 2012 By J. Pace

Here’s more plodding, plaintive, Pacific Northwest pabulum from Phil Elverum. This is the first of two full-lengths lined up to be released this year, both recorded in his new studio, a repurposed church in Anacortes, WA. More