andrewlucas Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Decided to randomly listen to this band for the first time. Pretty good. Very mellow. Typically I prefer my mellow music to be female singers but this was still very good. Are the other albums better or worse? Or the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Dawn and Lost Wisdom are both very good, earlier mellow albums. The Glow Pt. 2 and Mount Eerie (the album) by the Microphones are essential listening I’d say but quite different when compared to Now Only and A Crow Looked At Me. OneThreeOneTwo and Shelby 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivions Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 7 hours ago, andrewlucas said: Decided to randomly listen to this band for the first time. Pretty good. Very mellow. Typically I prefer my mellow music to be female singers but this was still very good. Are the other albums better or worse? Or the same? There's a connecting thread to them all but they vary quite a bit, IMO. Some are very atmospheric and abstract and others have more conventional, easier-to-make-out song structures. Sometimes it's acoustic, sometimes it's plugged-in but sparse folk, sometimes it shreds and there are giant walls of distorted crashing drums, sometimes its 3 minutes of fog with bells off in the distance. Don't let one record or stretch of songs that don't resonate with you turn you off to Mt. Eerie/Microphones entirely. Shelby, corey. and andrewlucas 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stress On The Sky Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 It's up on Bis Aufs Messer and I grabbed it as well as bookmarked that site. When I get together some more cash I'm gonna fill out some of the other Elverum gaps in my collection. Thanks again @mesi mesi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivions Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 This might be my favorite Mount Eerie record. The slight uptick in energy on here lets the music carry some of the weight that A Crow's lyrics shouldered on their own. Track 3 is so so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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