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MICROPHONES, The - Microphones In 2020 - Vinyl (2xLP)
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September 21, 2020
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information The MICROPHONES Microphones In 2020(gatefold LP + 1-sided LP + poster) PW Elevrum & Sun
Cat: ELV 046. Rel: 7 Sep 20
Indie
Side 1. Track 1 Side 2. Track 2 Side 3. Track 3
Phil Elverum brings his treasured Microphones moniker back to life, and it's what we needed. Music that has and offers space to think, breath and exist, it's a brooding journey through meditative rock and something of an essay on reforming song craft. A 45-minute song about art, self-image and a search for answers to questions bigger than we have space to discuss here.
In many ways it's jarring simple - a bare bones two- chord guitar melody spanning intro to outro. But it's deceptively complex, too. A prolific musician (Elverum also records as Mount Erie) showing his awesome ability to captivate with depth that sucks us further in, his earlier experimentations with sound art and analogue noise are also resurrected by way of background distortions, clangs, moments of tension and release that act as breadcrumbs guiding us through a masterpiece dense enough to get lost in.
