Until about six weeks ago, Phil Elvrum hadn't released a single video during his entire 14-year career, a streak broken with his self-created and -produced "The Place Lives," from Mount Eerie's…   Read Story »

Here's another single from Mount Eerie's new one, Ocean Roar, a slowly unfurling ode called "I Walked Home Beholding." It's a song that finds Phil Elverum finding some space inside a moody atmosphere…   Read Story »

Mount Eerie will put out Ocean Roar next month but the outfit also recently chipped in a single to Graveface's Charity Series, a program that benefits Friends Of The ACL. Today that single showed up,…   Read Story »

After two tracks of creepy, black-metal-derived ambient weirdness -- "Pale Lights" and "The Place Lives" -- I kind of expected all of Mount Eerie's sure-to-rule Ocean Roar to fit that template. But…   Read Story »

Right now, Phil Elverum is doing more with the basic elements of black metal than most black metal bands. The first bit of music we heard from his tantalizing forthcoming LP, Ocean Roar, an excerpt…   Read Story »

It's already been a pretty excellent year for Phil Elverum (and Phil Elverum fans): Clear Moon, the first of two planned 2012 LPs from his Mount Eerie project, was an absolute stunner. Now, the first…   Read Story »

Phil Elverum, the haunted lo-fi singer-songwriter sound-artist who used to record as the Microphones and who now records as Mount Eerie, intends to release two new album this year. The first, Clear…   Read Story »

Phil Elverum's stellar 2012 steams on: So far we've had the limited 7" "House Shape" and word of two full-lengths, one titled better than the next. (That's Clear Moon and Ocean's Roar, both of which…   Read Story »

Working under his Mount Eerie pseudonym, former Microphones guy Phil Elverum has been responsible for lots and lots of stark, powerful music over the last few years. He's planning on releasing two…   Read Story »

This year Phil Elverum will release two albums as Mount Eerie, his nom de plume since 2004. And they are two perfectly titled albums, too, if you know a thing about Mount Eerie: Up first is Clear…   Read Story »