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Artist: Mount Eerie
Album: Black Wooden
Label: Latitudes/Soutern Lord
Playtime: 21:45 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/mounteerie
Rip date: 2011-02-19
Street date: 2011-02-22
Size: 26.47 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 160 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Released via Southern Records' Latitudes imprint, Mount Eerie's Black Wooden
EP ended up being a fruitful, fateful moment in Phil Elverum's career.
Elverum recorded these songs at Southern Studios during a summer 2007 tour,
and while theyÆre off the cuff, they marked a turning point for his music.
ôBlack Woodenö itself launched Elverum's vision of a more organic-sounding
black metal, and the songÆs dour drones and wasteland imagery clearly paved
the way for the Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP and the album WindÆs Poem.
ôMarriageö (which became Lost Wisdom's ôOh My Heartö), meanwhile, gives this
sound an electric kick. The rest of Black Wooden isnÆt quite as visionary,
but it shows how effortlessly Elverum combines nature, philosophy, thoughts
on mortality, and the search for wisdom into deceptively simple songs.
ôAppetiteö (which later appeared on Black Wooden Ceiling Opening) cleverly
contrasts hunger and curiosity with satiety and ignorance, while ôIf We Knewö
(which Julie Doiron sung on Lost Wisdom) comforts and cautions against fears
of settling down and dying. Not every song is this heavy, however; Elverum
opens ôThe Bottomless Pitö with ôsinging about the mountains and the cloudö
-- something that could describe many a Mount Eerie song -- and finishes his
wondering with the self-deprecating ômeanwhile, it all yawns indifferently.ö
Despite this EPÆs scarcity, it set the tone for Mount Eerie's music for years
to come.
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01. Black Wooden ( 6:02)
02. The Bottomless Pit ( 2:13)
03. If We Knew ( 2:01)
04. Appetite ( 3:21)
05. Marriage ( 5:46)
06. Mount Eerie Revealed ( 2:22)
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