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- Summary: The double album release from Phil Elverum as Mount Eerie includes a ten-minute song.
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- Record Label: P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd.
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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| Out past beyond the field Inside the birches Under rising steam: A small room To prove I don't exist To show that I am beyond This animal form And... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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MagnetFeb 20, 2015This is the first time since 2003 that Elverum fully succeeds in casting a meditative spell strong enough to suck everyone listing into its singular IRL riptide. [No. 117, p.57]
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Feb 20, 2015When it's as gloriously complex, grandiose and naturally magnificent as what he's presented on Sauna and the couplet of albums that preceded it, you can entirely empathise.
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Feb 4, 2015As always, that mystery resides in the sounds he manipulates. No one else sounds like Phil Elverum.
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Feb 3, 2015This hodgepodge of ideas, irregular pacing and abrupt transitions are oddly compelling; though it can be tough to make it to the end of the hour-long work, Elverum makes it worth it.
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UncutFeb 3, 2015In his communions with nature, Elverum continues the American tradition of Whitman, Thoreau or Emerson, immersing himself in hymns to the land. [Mar 2015, p.78]
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Feb 3, 2015Sauna can be disorienting at times, too, but, more to the point, it has a peculiar way of making you feel like you’re listening to two overlapping albums that follow perpendicular impulses.
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Feb 3, 2015On Sauna, Elverum’s attempts to mimic heavy metal rock ballads, Tim Hecker, and certain so-called “holy” and unholy minimalists alike, feel inconsequential and compositionally uninteresting. That’s not to say that every citation falls flat.
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Nov 29, 2021As always, that mystery resides in the sounds he manipulates. No one else sounds like Phil Elverum
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Feb 8, 2015
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