Pitchfork: Avalanche of New Mount Eerie Releases on the Horizon

Avalanche of New Mount Eerie Releases on the Horizon

Like cancer or Wal-Mart or the Internet, Phil Elverum just keeps on expanding, threatening to blot the very sun from the sky. Surely his diversiform recording career (most notably as the Microphones and Mount Eerie) must at least have gotten a municipal building named after him in Anacortes, Washington by now. Check out what's on the way from his P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd. record label in just the next few months, as reported by tinymixtapes.com and partially corroborated by his own official site.

First, the releases under the Mount Eerie name. We get the full-length No Flashlight, the closest thing to a regular old album from Elvrum since 2003's Mount Eerie. This will be released first at Anacortes' What the Heck Fest on July 15 (see the show dates below), then to the rest of us on August 16. An all-percussion version of the album, sensibly titled The Drums From No Flashlight, follows on September 6. That same day will see the release of SINGERS, which consists of "'studio sing along' recordings from the past five years." Your guess is as good as ours about what that means, but Tiny Mix Tapes reports that it will include an alternate take of "I Can't Believe You Actually Died". Then comes 11 Old Songs on October 11, an all-Casio collection that would be more conceptually satisfying if it was released one month later (on 11/11, dig).

Just to prove his abiding love for his befuddled audience, Elverum has two more bullets in his discographical chamber. The five-song live EP Nobody's Perfect will be released under the name No One at some unspecified time, with a lineup "featuring celebrities." (Our money is on Omar Epps, Jason Alexander, and Sammy Hagar.) And finally, Elverum will evidently play on one-third of the new Thanksgiving triple-album I Am Yours / Fuck the World / Welcome Home Human, coming in August. Ha! Collect 'em all-- Phil dares you! He is large! He contains multitudes!

Somehow, all this recorded whimsy still leaves Elverum time to play live, like so:

06-25 Seattle, WA - Mural Stage Ampitheatre
07-04 Anacortes, WA - Department of Safety (as Casiotone for the Awkwardly Confident)
07-15 Anacortes, WA - What the Heck Fest 2005
07-19 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey (with Kimya Dawson)
07-20 Redmond, WA - The Old Firehouse
08-12 Rochester, Wa - Helsing Junction Farm
08-27 Astoria, OR - Catch the Beat Festival

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