Mount Eerie

latitudes: continues its winning run of releases; continues coaxing some of the best work (in jig time) from it's artists; continues making sweet sweet love to my earholes. not to be confused with black wood ceiling opening (a previous mount eerie offering). and while this cd is ensconced in the usual wonderfully origamic sleeve, it still doesn't come close to the downright fabulous packaging that came with mount eerie parts 6 & 7. and when i say packaging i mean a picture disc with hundred-odd paged photo book. but it is a tasty wee bugger nonetheless. always liked the whole ethos behind this series. get yr ass into the studio, chuck out some tunes as quick as you can. it either brings the focus or strips the music of whoever's in to the bare bones or allows them to freak the fuck out and let the fuck rip with whatever spews from their brainsacs. so you get the endless unitrack monomania thud of shit & shine. or some of magik markers best skronk. or in phil elverum's case surgical removal of everything but strings and voice. anyway like the aforementioned …ceilling opening this is a continuation of all things dark and nordic and metal but translated through wood. panic not dear readers there's none of that corpse-painted pagan folk shit here. in fact apart from the twin leads on marriage there's not much here that even approaches maiden no matter mayhem (though i'm sure i read somewhere he digs xasthur). what it does offer is a strand of that kindof dustbowl twang and slo-mo doom that earth peddled on the hex album. opening track black wooden has that same distorted duane eddie on ketamine feel. 'cept with will oldhams thrum and quiver atop it. and essentially, boiled down, reduced it's pretty much in that murmured bonnie prince billy acoustic folkish vein. like sketches and scribbles using song. reminds me of nina nastasia in places with its slightly skewed rhythm and melody. or the nods-towards-psyche apocalyptic folk of boduf songs. Read More

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