Mount Eerie - Distorted Cymbals

Phil Elverum, in his many musical incarnations, is a collector of sounds, and his Mount Eerie single ‘Distorted Cymbals’ (DBN122)  ts perfectly in the Dub Narcotic Disco Plate catalogue. Recorded with Calvin Johnson (Selector Dub Narcotics) in the Dub Narcotic studio, this collectable 7” has been called one of Phil’s more cogent projects by Calvin, and is a wonderful collaboration between two musical savants. Side A presents the unmixed ‘Distorted Cymbals’ track, where Elverum conjures dreamy elements of motion and texture by layering his instruments against quiet vocals. With a steady beat, a few cords and the clash clash of cymbals, this Mount Eerie single may bring fans back to The Microphones  rst release ‘Don’t Wake Me Up,’ but that is why Elverum plays such an looming  gure in the musical underground---his ability to perform, through all of his musical endeavors, as himself. Always reaching to describe and  ll bigger concepts, in ‘Distorted Cymbals’ Mount Eerie is a knocked over by the vastness of the sky. Selector Dub Narcotic remixes the single on Side B in “Anglepoise Cymbals,” laying a melodica out over the track and cleverly rearranging the song---accentuating moments of silence, overlapping lyrics—which lends wondrous air and feeling to Elverum’s music. Mount Eerie continues to tour and write, and occasionally returns to his hometown in Anacortes, Washington to watch his mountain. And, in recording singles like ‘Distorted Cymbals’ shows that his singular form of pop-magic is still breathing and growing in the musical underground.

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