Following the release of the outstanding album A Crow Looked At Me last year, songwriter and producer Phil Elverum continues to explore grieving and healing with Mount Eerie's new album Now Only.
Elverum grew up in the small town of Anacortes, Washington. You may know his music under the name of The Microphones, a project he started as a teenager in the mid-1990s and which went on to produce several EPs and albums. This first successful project was followed by Mount Eerie in 2003, a project that embodies the continuation of Phil Elverum's rich and prolific creative journey.
Mount Eerie's body of work has explored a variety of musical styles/genres over the years, his voice and lyrics acting as a thread tying everything together. After Phil Elverum's wife, French Canadian cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée, passed away in 2016, Mount Eerie documented these challenging times with his music and released the critically acclaimed album
A Crow Looked At Me in 2017. The artist is now back with Now Only, an intimate follow up that will continue to share his touching experience of loss and grief.
Now Only was recorded between March and October 2017 at Elverum's home and focuses on his life and memories. His website describes the album as "6 word-filled songs about the raw strangeness of the present moment, waking up in wreckage, living with pervasive echoing real ghosts and a growing young child. Autobiographical".
It is also
available as an LP and as a Japanese import CD version "packaged in a very nicely printed Japanese mini-LP jacket, with all the lyrics printed translated into Japanese".
Mount Eerie will be performing in the following cities:
22 March 2018 – New York, NY – Knockdown Center
24 March 2018 – Los Angeles, CA – The Cathedral Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian
29 March 2018 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
30 March 2018 – Vancouver, BC – The Vogue Theatre
31 March 2018 – Everett, WA – Fisherman's Village Music Festival at the Historic Everett Theatre
4 April 2018 – Seoul, Korea – West Bridge Live Hall
6 April 2018 – Tokyo, Japan – 7th Floor with Tenniscoats
7 April 2018 – Matsumoto, Japan – Give Me Little More
8 April 2018 – Kyoto, Japan – UrBANGUILD
9 April 2018 – Kobe, Japan – Guggenheim House with Nikaido Kazumi
12 April 2018 – Nagoya, Japan – Tokuzo with Gofish
13 April 2018 – Tokyo, Japan – 7th Floor with Tenniscoats
20-23 June 2018 – Calgary, AB – Sled Island
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