Mount Eerie

***The music of MOUNT EERIE and THE MICROPHONES has always been a very personal, almost voyeuristic, view inside the mind of PHIL ELVERUM. Dawn is an archival core sample from an intensely creative period of Elverum’s life, the winter of 2002/2003 spent in arctic Norway, a kind of “lost album” finally properly recorded on just guitar and singing. This version of Dawn features a 144-page hardcover book of journal writing chronicling a winter spent alone in a cabin, wrestling with ghosts, gathering wood, acting out the myths; thre months of unfiltered brain torrents interspersed with drawings and including a nineteen track CD of songs written during that time, as well as sixteen color photo cards. It is bound in simulated “wood” paper. It feels like holding a piece of wood. (STREET DATE - 6/23/2009)