Stereogum — Working under the names the Microphones and Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum has spent years making heavy, expressive, deeply personal music that has helped shape the sound of indie rock. He’s married to Geneviève Elverum (formerly Geneviève Castrée), ... more info

Stereogum — Phil Elverum, the Pac-NW musician behind the Microphones, Mount Eerie, and various related projects, is experiencing a resurgence of influence among DIY types. Recent Bands To Watch like Florist or Spencer Radcliffe bear a clear resemblance to quiver... more info

Forest Gospel — 100% recommendation. Their best yet. Really, really amazing laser beam noise wonder and awe. Ranks up their with the new Zs album, the new John Wiese album, the new Mount Eerie Album, the new Liturgy album, the new Matana Roberts album, i.e., the bes... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Mount Eerie's Sauna and The Notwist's Messier Objects are my personal favorite new albums this week. Also available this week are Bob Dylan's album of Frank Sinatra covers Shadows In The Night, filmmaker John Carpenter's Lost Themes, and the... more info

Stereogum — It’s been nearly three years since Phil Elverum released the lonely, majestic Ocean Roar, his last album as Mount Eerie. Next week, he’ll follow it up with Sauna, his latest piece of desolate, beautiful, lo-fi personal-apocalypse blues. We’ve h... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Flavorwire listed essential literary biographies. NPR Music is streaming the new Mount Eerie album, Sauna. 38 online "best books of 2014" lists were added to the master aggregation at Largehearted Boy last week. The Largehearted Boy list of essential... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Mount Eerie at LPR in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Phil Elverum already announced a new Mount Eerie album, Sauna, and put out its excellent lead single, and now he's back with another single, "Dragon," as well as the... more info

Stereogum — In a couple of weeks, the cult-beloved lo-fi auteur Phil Elverum, who used to record as the Microphones and who now records as Mount Eerie, will release Sauna, an ominous foghorn of an album. His ambiguous, evocative video for “This” was one of t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Phil Elverum is set to release a new Mount Eerie album, Sauna, on February 3 via his own P.W. Elverum and Sun label. Its first single, "THIS," is pulsing ambient pop with angelic harmonies courtesy of Hungry... more info

Stereogum — Leave it to Phil Elverum to describe his new Mount Eerie video better than I ever could: “The song and the video are seemingly surreal and ambiguous, but actually it is an attempt at a straight-up accurate depiction of this every-moment mental expe... more info