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Your coffee table is so not ready for this. On November 6, Southern Distribution and P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. will treat Phil Elverum devotees to Mount Eerie Pts. 6 & 7, a furniture-shattering 132-page oversize volume packed with full-color photographs-- gorgeous landscapes, primarily, akin in mood to the films Phil has been showing on tour and meant as a "visual counterpart" to the man's recordings over the years.

Pts. 6 & 7 also houses Mount Eerie music in the form of a single 10" picture disc record, one which holds in its grooves the "sequel" to the Mount Eerie album, released under the Microphones moniker in 2003. Considering the five tracks on Mount Eerie (which have non-numerical titles) parts 1-5, the 10", then, collects the next two parts on its two sides.

The most devoted (and loaded, as this thing carries quite a price tag) of Elverum devotees may already have this artifact-- it's been available on Phil's site for a little while now, and he's been selling it on tour-- but the rest of us will have a chance to scoop it up as Southern spreads it far and wide next week.

And if the aforementioned price tag has you queasy, know this: According to the Mount Eerie website, Pts. 6 & 7 was "printed and bound at the best printer in North America...on 10,000 lbs of FSC certified 50% recycled, 35% post-consumer 'Endeavor' paper ('savings': 20 full grown trees, 60 lbs of water-borne waste, 9000 lbs solid waste, 1000 gallons of water, 1900 lbs of greenhouse gases, 14870 (000) BTU's of energy)." So, yeah.

What's more, Phil spared no expense with the recording, enlisting veteran board-man John Golden to mix it. Phil even wrapped copies of his book in a dust jacket printed on a special stock of paper that feels like, well-- have you ever touched the stringrays at SeaWorld? It feels rather a lot like that. Apparently Elverum thought it the grossest thing ever, which is why he's gleefully sharing it with you. Aww, thanks man. You're the best.

Mount Eerie is presently in the throes of a sizable cross-country trek. Tonight, November 2, finds him in Providence, Rhode Island.

Mount Eerie:

11-02 Providence, RI - AS220 *
11-03 Boston, MA - Oxfam Cafe (early show) *%
11-03 Boston, MA - Oxfam Cafe (late show) *#
11-04 Portsmouth, NH - River Run Books #^
11-05 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - Bard College
11-06 Hoboken, NJ - Stevens Institute of Technology
11-07 Bronxville, NY - Sarah Lawrence College #$
11-08 New York, NY - Cinders (early show)
11-08 New York, NY - Lutheran Church of the Messiah (late show) $
11-09 Bridgeport, CT - The Nest $
11-10 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church $
11-12 Baltimore, MD - Copycat B201 $
11-13 Charlottesville, VA - Chapel at University of Virginia $
11-14 Greensboro, NC - Dana Auditorium at Guilford College $
11-15 Asheville, NC - Ship to Shore Shop (two shows) $
11-16 Columbia, SC - Nickelodeon Theater $
11-17 Charleston, SC - 52.5 Records $
11-18 Gainesville, FL - Wayward Council $~
11-19 Orlando, FL - Stardust Coffee $+
11-20 Sarasota, FL - New College $
11-21 Fort Myers, FL - Planetarium at the Calusa Nature Center $
11-22 Jacksonville, FL - Inertia $
11-23 Atlanta, GA - A Cappella Books $
11-24 Jonesboro, AR - 1914 Greensboro Road
11-25 St. Louis, MO - Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center
11-26 Springfield, MO - Randy Bacon Gallery
11-27 Norman, OK - Opolis
11-28 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
11-29 Houston, TX - Nostsuoh
11-30 Austin, TX - Ruta Maya
12-01 Marfa, TX - Liberty Hall
12-02 Albuquerque, NM - TBA
12-03 Penasco, NM - El Puente Theater
12-04 Phoenix, AZ - Trunk Space
12-05 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
12-08 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Ct. $
12-09 Boise, ID - TBA

* with Privacy
% with Hats & Glasses
# with Jason Anderson
^ with Tiger Saw
$ with Geneviève Castrée/Woelv
~ with Inertia
+ with Jenny K Surrounded by Wolves