am i the mount eerie of sputnik

Album Rating: 5.0

Nah you just the guy who I hope posts an I’m leaving list and actually sticks to it

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah man, idk, new album is an instant classic. Honestly one of the best new pieces of music I've heard in at least 5 years or so. It's beautiful. It's somehow both intimate and monumental. I think it's something we'll look back on in ten or fifteen years like "wow we didn't know how good we had it." What an amazing record.

Album Rating: 4.5

New album is incredible, after a few listens it's just so well done

Might be competing for AOTY with Imaginal Disk

Album Rating: 4.5

"i haven’t heard anything from this guy that sounds like even a sliver of effort was put into it"



Check your ears or something? Idk

Album Rating: 4.0

That's a silly take agreed

Album Rating: 3.0

Ugh an hour 20

Album Rating: 3.0

'That's a silly take agreed'



I mean... consider the source.

it’s just so half baked and feels like he just records voice memos on walks and puts them over loose recordings on an old laptop from 2009

the outro of I Want Wind to Blow is good the rest sucks

“feels like he just records voice memos on walks and puts them over loose recordings on an old laptop from 2009”

sounds fkn amazing yeah

The “same-melody-but-distorted-now” ending of I Want Wind to Blow strikes me as the “laziest” part. The sound design of the rest is very intricate. Whatever he did to get that streeeeeetch-n-SLAP percussion sound seems like it probably wasn’t lazy.

wind & fog pt 2 is such an incredible song

new one is awesome but it's just way too long

Album Rating: 3.0

a great album is never long enough. a bad album is never short enough.

The new one is very competently constructed and absolutely does not feel "low effort" (what is that take?) but I’m struggling to connect with it

Demolition’s first couple of minutes is literally gagaku and non-ironically the best part of the entire album. Then it descends into poetry class. In a nutshell that’s my issue with it overall. I need a greater emphasis on escapist atmospheric passages and less ‘thought provoking’ lyricism. The latter rarely works for me if I’m honest.

Mount Eerie (the album) is fantastic btw, I hadn’t previously heard anything under “Mount Eerie” the artist before

Album Rating: 3.0

Poeticism (here and elsewhere) is tricky because it somehow feels even more sensitive to personal subjectivity than any other aspect of modern music, and in many cases, it begins its journey as an uphill battle anyway - just mention "poetry passages" about some new indie record and you can literally hear the churn of people's eyes headed for the back of their skulls.



I cannot deny that I am often one of those people. There's something about Phil's monologuing, though, that has always sidestepped pretension to me; his trains-of-thought come off as legitimately intimate and genuine, his storytelling often highlighting the gravity of the mundane in ways that haven't sparked intrigue in me since, like, early-aughts Bright Eyes albums (lol). MICROPHONES IN 2020 is a good example of this; the entire thing is pretty much a narrative, but it works partly because I get the sense that Phil doesn't give a shit if we "buy it" or not. It's coming straight from the gut and you can take it or leave it.



But as a counterpoint, while many of the songs and excerpts of songs here could be loosely considered "poetic" to some extent, 'Demolition' is really an outlier in terms of song structure and recitation, isn't it?

yeah, Demolition is an outlier. It just had me mildly amused at the contrast of how much I genuinely enjoyed the opening to that song, then how quickly said enjoyment dissipated

He definitely has an aptitude for painting vivid pictures of otherwise would-be mundane occurrences. How much said visuals actually do for me in the context of the music is in question. And I'd like less history lessons and more tales of talking fish if possible please

Album Rating: 3.0

And I'd like less history lessons and more tales of talking fish if possible please

Now this, I do not disagree with.

Album Rating: 4.0

The new one is very competently constructed and absolutely does not feel "low effort" (what is that take?) but I’m struggling to connect with it

Album Rating: 3.0

Phil Elverum in shambles