#88

I guess I’m the outlier here, but I’m enjoying this album a lot more than the last two. ACLAM and NO were two albums I could respect and admire for their bravery and rawness, but not albums I want to return to and ‘enjoy’.

They are albums by design largely devoid of memorable melodies and instrumentation, and being someone who, hands up, doesn’t really pay as much attention to lyrics, that doesn’t really make for repeat listening for me.

But this one feels and sounds warmer and richer. There’s more going on with the songs themselves that my brain can latch on to. The interplay with Doiron is lovely, and I’m so glad to hear multiple instruments creep back into his music. I’ve missed it. And more importantly for my brain, I can remember these songs.

I know this makes me immensely superficial, but I guess melody is what I cling to more with music. I connect with sounds more than words. I love a good lyric, sure, but I’m far more likely to be more forgiving of a song with shit lyrics but a great tune than I am the other way round.

Anyway. FWIW, enjoying this album. I’m glad to have a little bit of old-style Elverum back in my life.

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#90

:sob:

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#91

sounds good, maybe I should have listened to lost wisdom 2

#92

woulda been better if it was more like that tbh

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#94

YES PLEASE!

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#95

Wooooooah

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#96

:slight_smile:

:confused:

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#97

Will see how it ends up but initially really intrigued by the concept as he describes it.

#98

hope it is a genuine return to the microphones spirit, I love mount eerie, and there is a lot of variety in production but its like the underlying songs are very similar, microphones seemed a bit more varied

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#99

@moderators - can we change the thread title to Mount Eerie/The Microphones thread (rolling)

Thanks

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#100

What makes something a microphones record rather than mt eerie? Figured it was just a name change.

#101

I would say the microphones are twee-tinged, and mount eerie is not, I would consider the microphones mount eerie album to be a mount eerie album though/

dont smoke/get off the internet does not fit my paradigm

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#102

Not sure i’ve ever properly listened to a microphones record tbh. Twee suggests probably a good thing for me.

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#103

twee tinged indie pop, but with hints of what would later become mount eerie, it was hot and the glow part 2 are the sweet spot when he developed his own sound, but before he started mining the same seam over and over

#104

I think in this case this album is kind of about that? It sounds like playing a show under that name and seeing the response made him curious about it – cause they are kind of the same project, really. I’d say a lot of the differences between the two projects can be explained simply by the fact that Elverum was a lot younger when making music as the Microphones.

#105

I have to say ‘twee’ was never a description I ever associated with The Microphones.

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#106

I enjoyed the doomy note at the end there, hope its pretty metal

#107

I said twee tinged, that’s as big a difference as country tinged and country, have you heard their earliest records, the k records twee influence is definitely there

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