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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: Mount Eerie ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: No Flashlight ▀ ░
▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Indie ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Language.....: English ░▓░▐▓
▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: PW Elverum & Sun ░▓░ █▓▌
▐█▓▓ ▀▓ Catnr........: n/a ░▓▓▓ ▐█▓▓
▓█▓▌ URL..........: http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/ ▓░ ███▓▓[z0o]░
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ playtime....: 37:48 min ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 18-09-2005 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. I Know No One 02:32 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. I Hold Nothing 05:00 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. The Moan 02:54 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. In the Bat's Mouth 01:33 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. No Inside, No Out 01:52 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. (2 Lakes) 01:09 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Stop Singing 03:02 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. No Flashlight 03:05 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. (2 Mountains) 01:19 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. The Air in the Morning 03:02 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. The Universe is Shown 01:55 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. What? 02:57 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. How? 02:25 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 14. No Flashlight 03:55 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 15. (2 Moons) 01:08 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ No Flashlight, Mount Eerie's first studio album, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ comes with a huge poster/map/Farmer's Almanac ▓▌
▓████▓▌ thing, which is meant to help explain the music and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ look pretty doing so. It isn't the first time Phil ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Elverum, the band's inscrutable leader, has written ▓▌
▓████▓▌ an album with grandiose narrative threads and laid ▓▌
▓████▓▌ them out in liner notes. Mount Eerie, his last ▓▌
▓████▓▌ record as Microphones, tackled-- in language that ▓▌
▓████▓▌ was difficult despite its puerile concision-- the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Sun, Solar System, and Universe, plus ol' Mount ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Eerie herself. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ But while that record came with an attractive but ▓▌
▓████▓▌ relatively modest fold-out poster (all black ink ▓▌
▓████▓▌ printed on diaphanous wax paper), No Flashlight's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ visual companion is a freaking atlas, complete with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ beatific photographs and Elverum's wobbly prose. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Window-dressing on an epic scale, its inclusion ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sends the message that understanding is required to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ access enjoyment. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ No Flashlight is the most musically undistinguished ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Elverum-related project to date, including ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Microphones' intractable early albums and Mount ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Eerie's shoddily-recorded live and tour-only ▓▌
▓████▓▌ material. The album's laissez-faire production ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fails to anchor its quaint, melody-allergic songs. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ In turn, Elverum's retiring vocals float to the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ top, which is a horrible place for them. It's a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ textural trainwreck that sabotages the music before ▓▌
▓████▓▌ one can even focus on lyrics or guitar lines. So ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the distraction of an expository outpouring makes ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sense. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Demanding listener input-- as Elverum does here by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ not-so-subtly inviting us to ponder him-- isn't a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bad thing. But courting ears with such esoteric ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hooey is disingenuous and annoying. Elverum used to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ be able to hide his most solipsistic moments behind ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ambitious music; he now makes boring music that is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ premised on his persona and the explanation ▓▌
▓████▓▌ thereof. This is theoretical music in a whole ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 'nother sense: Largely untechnical and musically ▓▌
▓████▓▌ staid, the meaning lies not in the notes, not in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the colossal liner spread, and not even really in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the words, which are feebly expository and largely ▓▌
▓████▓▌ unsatisfying. The value, we are led to believe, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ lies somewhere apart from the music. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Elverum sings in an quietly anguished voice-- like ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a cult leader, it's only as powerful as what he ▓▌
▓████▓▌ puts behind it. Here, Elverum's a lone sojourner; ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Mount Eerie's gray performances put the diffident ▓▌
▓████▓▌ singer cruelly in the foreground, where he ▓▌
▓████▓▌ founders. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Has his voice changed? Hardly. Coy, lethargic, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ almost drunkenly tuneless, this is the same guy ▓▌
▓████▓▌ from Microphones. Only now he has nowhere to hide. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ On "The Glow," pt. 2, his former band's penultimate ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and best album, Elverum wrapped inner-sanctum ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ruminations in warm, whooshing instrumentals, rich ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in assertive melodies. No Flashlight is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ comparatively ascetic. Melodies are sparse but the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ music isn't quite minimal. Opener "I Know No One" ▓▌
▓████▓▌ subdues a plaintive guitar line in accordion swell ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and excessive, frequently mic-clipping percussion. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Unaccessorized, the six-string would sound ▓▌
▓████▓▌ brilliant-- a counterpoint to Elverum's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ugly-beautiful vox-- but the line is swallowed up. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ On "How?", notes cluster in disorganized spurts, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ while the 1st Mt. Eerie Tabernacle Hummers fill the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ voids with their closed-lip sounds. "Stop Singing" ▓▌
▓████▓▌ opens beautifully-- flashes of guitar tussle with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ clarinet vapors, evoking an unlikely forebear: Talk ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Talk. But it's just an intro, soon to be supplanted ▓▌
▓████▓▌ by a bass/drums vamp that dispenses with lo-fi's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ anchoring warmth, keeping the shabbiness. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Elverum previously espoused a very ▓▌
▓████▓▌ un-singer/songwriterly preference for sound over ▓▌
▓████▓▌ persona. But No Flashlight is quick to dispel any ▓▌
▓████▓▌ confusion around its focus. "I Know No One" drops ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the mission statement bombshell: "Knowing no one ▓▌
▓████▓▌ understands these songs/ I try to sing them ▓▌
▓████▓▌ clearer/ Even though no one has ever asked, 'What ▓▌
▓████▓▌ does Mount Eerie mean?'". The best tracks are those ▓▌
▓████▓▌ on which he's mollified: by Glow-sized guitar wash ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and skittish drums on "The Moan", or gusty tuba and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a second-line beat on "The Universe Is Shown". ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ I revisited my Microphones LPs, which I haven't ▓▌
▓████▓▌ spun regularly for a couple years, to see if ▓▌
▓████▓▌ evolving tastes, globalization, or something else ▓▌
▓████▓▌ isn't to blame for my indifference to Mount Eerie. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Verdict? "The Glow," pt. 2 is still fantastic; It ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Was Hot We Stayed in the Water still very good; and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Mt. Eerie still trippy as hell. If the forthcoming ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Singers is any indication, Mount Eerie got some ▓▌
▓████▓▌ moxy in 'em yet. But your enjoyment of No ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Flashlight will depend on your interest in Phil ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Elverum, and whether or not you've the patience to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ wade through this sonic tub-full of Jonestown ▓▌
▓████▓▌ juice. Once you find him, he's just as fetchingly ▓▌
▓████▓▌ impossible. But when the pleasure is this ▓▌
▓████▓▌ conditional, it becomes fuzzy what all the fuss is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ over. ▓▌
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