Phil Elvrum Rules!
Regardless of whether or not you like Phil Elvrum's musical output in bands such as the Microphones or Mount Eerie, this news will convince you that he is, at the very least, a great guy. Seeing that North Americans were paying ridiculous sums for copies of an Australian tour only EP, Elvrum decided to release the album to the wilds of the internets, free to anyone who wants it. Here's the blurb on the Internet Archive where the album is posted.
You can download the album in a number of different formats here. Below are two sample songs from the EP, but I recommend that you download the whole thing.
Mount Eerie - Wooly Mammoth's Absence
Mount Eerie - With My Hands Out
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For those of you waiting patiently for the next instalment in the Early Destroyer Songs series, it should be up in the next day or two.
Seven songs recorded for the July 2004 tour of Australia by Mount Eerie. They were recorded "Nowhere" in Anacortes, Washington in the months of May and June 2004. The release was in an edition of 196 CDRs and sold out on tour. Somehow people in North America found out about it and thought they really wanted it because of the low quantity. Now it is available forever for free. No more romance!This album brings back a lot of great memories for me, as I was lucky enough to see Phil perform most of these songs about a half dozen times over the course of my final year living in Vancouver. The best show was probably the one where Phil played solo in Jay's empty living room to about 30 people huddled close together, with the sun shining in through an open window, and with various street sounds accompanying the unamplified songs. I think the recording kind of captures the warm atmosphere of this show, in some ways.
You can download the album in a number of different formats here. Below are two sample songs from the EP, but I recommend that you download the whole thing.
Mount Eerie - Wooly Mammoth's Absence
Mount Eerie - With My Hands Out
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For those of you waiting patiently for the next instalment in the Early Destroyer Songs series, it should be up in the next day or two.
posted by ian at 9:19 AM
2 Comments:
Wow, thank you for posting this.
Katherine
It's great to see Phil doing this, I especially love how he ends the description with "No more romance!" I agree, down with artifacts, up with music!
I wonder if we'll ever see an internet release of 2 New songs, the 12" recorded live to acetate in Melbourne on that same tour (original versions of Let's Get out of the World and In the World; lord knows how few copies of that were pressed, I guess it's the ELV00negative1 missing from the catalog). If I had it on mp3 I wouldn't have to handle my copy with gloves anymore.
I just contradicted myself a bit, didn't I?
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