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>>54588077
Can you tell us why you don't like it without using nonsensical buzzwords?

It sounds good and I enjoy listening to it.

Holy shit, that was easy!

Why bother? You have already convinced yourself that you dislike it.

>>54588115
>>54588117
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You sound like you just sort of half-listened to the album while focusing on something else, OP, but it doesn't really matter what you think of the album as long as I enjoy it, I guess.

Now go listen to other thing.

>>54588077
>excessively-polite musical backdrop fit for NPR

lol did you even listen to it

>>54588331
I listened to it five times since 2010, I don't get it. It's okay, and very inoffensive, but I don't understand why people LOVE it so much. Why is it one of the more popular albums on /mu/?

>>54588077
Love this record
Didnt take me long ti get it
It just has really interesting and memberable songwriting

>>54588077
Alot of people like to compare this to ITAOTS for some reason but I prefer this by a long shot

>>54588646
I dunno, I like the sad sound and I doubt I'm alone there. What do you generally listen to?

>>54588646
>very inoffensive,

it's not a fucking numetal album

Earl is The Microphones of rap.

>>54588646
>Why is it one of the more popular albums on /mu/?

It's really not. It gets talked about a lot in autumn and winter I suppose, but I don't see it here that often. It's been posted a shitload lately though, dunno why.

Anyway, I enjoy it a lot because Phil does a great job creating the atmosphere of nature through the music and the production, and I really like the story it tells. I think it's life-affirming but in a sort of somber way, as opposed to a triumphant one, and that's something that resonates with me personally. The harmonies are unique because sometimes they'll be beautiful, and other times kind of dissonant. I love the instrumentation and the small sonic details throughout the album.

>>54588755
>What do you generally listen to?
Sufjan Stevens and Kendrick Lamar.

nice sounding guitar arrangements, cool lyrical imagery, you can vibe to it if you're sad

i mean what kind of reasons are you expecting us to give? it's not going to change your opinion anyway and you know it

>>54589008
This, more or less

What makes it such a great album, at least to me, is how genuine it all is. Like, it's just this lonesome, honest, thoughtful guy from buttfuck nowhere writing lonesome, honest, thoughtful music, not trying to make a buck or anything. Just doing what he loves and expressing himself in a profound way

The lyrical themes of nature, the metaphors, the really very creative lo-fi production, the kind of concept the entire album has, and especially the way you can come back to it as many times as you want and still notice something knew/pick up on something else. It's just such a deep, leveled record, both sonically and musically.

And I thought it was fucking boring on first listen. This album and Phil's works in general are really something you have to consider and actively listen to to fully understand. I thought the love for this album was unwarranted at first as well. I was wrong

>>54589008
>I really like the story it tells
Can you tell me more about this story? Is it a concept album, because I didn't see any storytelling in it.

>>54589244
>>54589008
>>54589081
Still, thanks for replying, I'll try to listen to it one more time.

>>54589264
From my understanding, it's an album about him going off into nature and attempting to drown himself as a result of a break up (that last part may be inaccurate, but the first line on the opening track is about him and his ex gf/ex band partner breaking up). He fails to do so but ends up almost freezing to death out in the wilderness. Various songs are about him exploring his surroundings and reminiscing on past memories and figuring that he doesn't want to die, and then on Samurai Sword it's a matter of survival; him killing a bear to stay alive. By the end of the album, we know that he made it out alive (My Warm Blood). But the atmosphere of that song and his delivery just isn't that upbeat or happy. He doesn't seem particularly pleased with surviving, or maybe he isn't pleased with how he went about surviving (killing an animal).

This is partly conjecture on my part but the general idea is agreed upon that it's an album about attempting suicide via drowning, almost freezing to death, but making it through. The thin vocals and instrumentation paint images of a man freezing to death in the wilderness pretty well, in my opinion. When lyrics and music (and production) marry so well, I just really enjoy it.

>>54589244
Yeah, this album and basically any of Phil's work took me time to vibe with. I never seem to like anything on first listen, and this album in particular put me off for a long while.

I fucking love the lyrics on this album

>>54589286
Also please realize this album is just one part of a larger story and that you're kind of starting in the middle.

>>54589488
Oh yeah, that's worth mentioning.

While I'm here, I'd be happy to learn where It Was Hot fits in, as far as the story goes. I never really picked up on it on my own and I'm willing to be spoonfed by this point.

listen to the album mount eerie
I only the first couple songs on the glow pt. 2 but that album is transcendental

>>54589016
You like Sufjan but not this? Interesting. Well I guess it just isn't your cup of tea, man. And there's nothing wrong with that!

>>54589568
only like*

Where is The Glow pt 1?

>>54588077
Honestly it has an atmosphere that very few albums have, and really what else sounds like it at all, i mean all the noise and odd production Phil used. I think its unique and interesting. If you don't then you don't no need to think about it again

>>54589642
On "It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water" which is the album that serves as a "part one" in the trilogy of albums that it IWHWSitW -> TGPt2 -> Mount Eerie

>>54589689
Is his work as Mt. Eerie any good?

>>54589832
no

>>54589832
The albums I've listened to have been good to great, but I've been going through it chronologically and taking my time in doing so. Lost Wisdom, Dawn, and Wind's Poem are what I've enjoyed so far. I'll probably end up liking them more as time passes because that's how every Phil-fronted album I've ever listened to works.

What I'm wondering is if his Microphones stuff outside of It Was Hot..., The Glow Pt. 2, and Mount Eerie is good. I have it downloaded and everything but I just never got around to it.

Does anyone know how Phil got that real raw, loud distortion on his guitar that he uses on It Was Hot? (For instance, at the end of The Pull

>>54589832
No, it's all shit. The Glow. Pt 2 and It Was Hot are his only good albums.

>>54589967
I really liked Clear Moon and Sauna, but thats just me. I think all his albums have a fairly unique, organic sound

>>54588077
Lol.

>>54589949
I wanna know how he got the sound on the drums at the end of I Want Wind to Blow. The cymbals just sound so interesting to me, like they're sounding two or three times, a half second between each other or something.

>>54589967
>not even including Mount Eerie on his list of good albums

>>54588935
I can see it. Earl has devoted himself to making small, personal rap records, very much like Phil Elvrum making small, personal lo-fi records.

>>54589832
Yes. I recommend you start with No Flashlight.

But to be honest I haven't listened to a whole lot of Mount Eerie. There's a lot more content there than in The Microphones' discog.

>>54589943
Don't Wake Me Up is definitely worth checking out. In terms of mood it's like the midpoint between It Was Hot and The Glow pt. 2. Really bittersweet stuff.

Tests is pretty good too, even if the album had no real direction.

>>54588077
i think the songs are all pretty good

Mount Eerie is a better album

>>54590449
That's like saying one act of a play is better than another.

>>54589568
This but Mount Eerie is really meant to be listened to after The Glow Pt. 2

>>54590475
People always say stuff like this but I just don't get the feel of a single cohesive whole from The Glow Pt. 2 other than the foghorns happening to bridge together otherwise completely dissimilar tracks.

>>54589998
Sauna is my aoty so far, I think it's the most atmospheric album Phil has made in a really long time.

>>54589519
It was hot takes place during the relstionship, and begins with a song comparing the growing of his love to the decay of a body, forshadowing what is to come. It is established that the relationship and to phils entire life is governed by these forces: the pull (into a relationshop), the breeze(?), the glow (his intense love) the gleam (his perception of his partners love for him). He remains loyal to the commands of these forces his whole life untill Mount Eerie,when in the afterlife he finally has complete clarity and becomes master of his own universe.
Also phil dies at the end of the glow pt. 2 sorry to burst ur bubble.

>>54590031
He put the mic under a bucket at the other side of a room while he hit the cymbals. Theres an interview called song exploder where he disects the whole song. Its worth a google

>tfw I didn't have a clue what the fuck Phil was singing in The Moon until I found the acoustic version earlier today and now all I want to do is lie down

>>54590659
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.

>Also phil dies at the end of the glow pt. 2 sorry to burst ur bubble.

I thought he dies in Mount Eerie?

>>54590740
I've listened to that podcast but I guess I missed that detail, which is ridiculous because I was listening specifically for that. Guess I zoned out. Thanks.

if you don't get that the production on this album is amazing ur a lost cause

>acoustic guitars
>polite
>inoffensive
>meanwhile WALLS OF FEEDBACKY GUITARS, SOUL PIERCING ORGANS AND ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS SOUNDING DRUMS

honestly I think his lyrics are a little on the whiny side too but who even cares when the music is this fucking cool. There's so much going on. I've been listening to this album for 10 years now and I'm still hearing new things I had missed in the previous 987798 listens

>that vocal work in the first few minutes of the title sequence of Mount Eerie

>>54590931
>I...WAAATCHED...YOOOU...FROOOM....AAA...BOOOVE