MOUNT EERIE - Dawn LP Cold Wave Whitney Johnson (Verma)

Whitney Johnson (Verma)

As ever they prize a deep sense of cool yearning that hearkens back to the slow burn atmospheres of classic film noir as much as David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtracks

but whatever drone-doom camp that Om had been placed in has been decimated by the sheer imagination & expansive quality of this recording

dreamlike rock compositions

MOUNT EERIE - Dawn LP Cold Wave Whitney Johnson (Verma)The music of MOUNT EERIE and THE MICROPHONES has always been a very personal, almost voyeuristic, view inside the mind of PHIL ELVERUM. Dawn is an archival core sample from an intensely creative period of Elverums life, the winter of 2002 2003 spent in arctic Norway, a kind of lost album finally properly recorded on just guitar and singing. Pressed on white vinyl with a special booklet of scary self portraits done in the dark window reflection in