Album Rating: 3.5

I got through it once but never again.

https://soundcloud.com/p-w-elverum/distortion-by-mount-eerie-from-now-only

this is fantastic, excited for the new album

Just saw Phil live, he performed almost exclusively tracks from this album. Was appropriately heartbreaking. Good shit!

Album Rating: 4.5

I've heard that he's playing tracks from the new album, wonder how those were. Apparently they're more Kozelek-esque.

Have you ever put this album on repeat and driven through the country at night?

Yeah, don't do it.

Album Rating: 4.5

What. New album this soon, Phil is amazing. Digging the new song

He played half the songs from this album and like probably all the songs from the new album. They’re a natural contimuation of this.

I did poor maths in front of him when calculating money for merch and it was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me.

Album Rating: 4.5

The setlist was incredible, weaving this album with the new one; felt sequenced to form some kind of grand narrative in which he does learn some things -- there are some real tension-breakers amongst the new ones. I mean, there was laughter even.

Album Rating: 4.5

Damn, thats great to hear.

Well there was laughter in a song where the entire song was about the absurtity of life after death, so that made sense to me, but then Phil was like “why are you all laughing” and i wondered if he hadn’t actually intended that haha

Album Rating: 4.5

Haha, indeed. At the very least, I think the FJM and Skrillex anecdotes were supposed to be in some way humorous, so when that chorus hit a lot of the tension built up by the songs prior was released and so people felt comfortable letting out a chuckle. Phil's was a confused kind of chuckle, so maybe it was unexpected. God, the new songs were good, though.

Yeah the new album is gonna be incredible.

My conversation with him at the merch table while I picked up the vinyl for this was the most subdued merch experience I’ve ever had. The man practically leaks with heaviness of heart. Cool bloke though. That transition from skrillex back to cancer was incredibly seamless

Kinda makes you think :?:

I wanted to say so many things to him at the merch table, I even wanted to give him a copy of one of my albums as a gift and a thank you for all his music had helped me with, instead I went up and said “sup phil, i’ll take one of these” and handed him money and then interrupted him while he said thank you so i could say “looking forward to the show” and then he said thank you again.

Then while my friend was behind me and was twenty dollars short, I offered him $10 and Phil was like “i need ten more” and then i just realised what an idiotic boob i had made of myself


So it’s safe to say my first meeting with Phil went more or less the same as it does with every other human being i’ve ever met

Luckily for me I had no idea what he looked like til I googled him while at the merch table so it didn’t really click I was talking to the man himself. He sorta looks like this guy I knew in WA who used to collect old tractors and bass amps.

I'm a social recluse, but it usually matters a lot less to me because I generally don't care what people think of me so I brush most social meetings aside with a lot of indifference. But meeting Phil was different because I so badly didn't want to look like a moron in front of him, but alas, I did.

He chuckled during the money incident so maybe it wasn't so bad.

yeah last night in australia where i reside

hopefully phil goes back to singing about mountains and wind and shit

this album was cancer