After the release of
the Microphones' 2003 album
Mount Eerie, Washington State-based songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer
Phil Elverum took that title as the name of his subsequent project, which expanded on the searching feel of
the Microphones' music. He founded the label P.W. Elverum and Son Ltd., releasing a pair of CD-Rs, Seven New Songs of Mt. Eerie and Mt. Eerie Dances with Wolves/Wolf Mountain Howls in the World in 2004 before
Mount Eerie's debut album No Flashlight became the label's first official
Mount Eerie release in 2005. A CD/LP set with a poster that holds the record for the world's largest album cover, No Flashlight set the tone for
Mount Eerie's further, intricately packaged releases, which were prolific; they included
The Drums from No Flashlight, Singers (which featured different vocalists singing
Elverum's songs), and the electronic-tinged 11 Old Songs of Mount Eerie, all of which also arrived in 2005. 2007 saw the release of a
Microphones single, Don't Smoke/Get Off the Internet and Mount Eerie, Pts. 6 & 7, a picture disc and book of photographs, which was the sequel to
the Microphones album that started it all. 2008's Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP introduced
Elverum's concept of playing "black metal with natural materials" and featured a different version of "Don't Smoke." Later that year, the concert DVD Fog Movies Live and a split single with
No Kids preceded
Lost Wisdom, a collaboration with
Eric's Trip and
Broken Girl singer
Julie Doiron and guitarist
Fred Squire.
Dawn, a journal/CD set written during
Elverum's stay in Norway in late 2002/early 2003, arrived in spring 2009, while a full-length of new material,Wind's Poem, was scheduled for later that year. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
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