Word: elvrum
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...only one of the shows in this marathon, make it Mt. Eerie. Frontman (only man, really) Phil Elvrum, who has previously recorded under the moniker The Microphones, is a singer-songwriter who performs concerts of completely brand-new music, much of it written just minutes before the beginning of the show...
...each song, and generally change your life. Download “The Moon” off of The Microphones’ The Glow, Pt. 2, if you need a taste. Woelv is also a solo singer-songwriter, but she sings in French and is far, far less penetrable than Elvrum, if such a thing is possible...
...screen, seems like as good a place as any to put the Microphones to rest, or at least their name. The anesthetized neon hotel rooms of Sofia Coppola’s Tokyo are the 21st century analogue to the lonesome Washingtonian shores from whence comes the music of Phil Elvrum, elfish folk matador behind the Microphones...
...ponderous nature of Mt. Eerie is absent on Live in Japan, a sober collection of new songs culled from the bare-bones shows Elvrum performed before retiring the Microphones’ moniker for good. All the ingredients of vintage Microphones are present: droopy guitars, moan-singing and months spent in isolation. But the magic of the spacious soundscapes that Elvrum dreams up so well in basement studios is missing, save standout tracks like the break-up tune “The Blow, Pt. 2” and “Universe Conclusion,” a bone-shaking campfire call...
...Night.” But these songs are in every way inferior to the album’s opener and apex, “Great Ghosts,” a guitar lullaby about exile, return and surrender that should be the Microphone’s swan song. Typically, tentatively, Elvrum howls: “As you can see / having descended the hill / I still look like me / I still wallow like Phil, and forever will.” The luminous ghosts of the Microphones past are haunting Elvrum and us, but in this live setting they’re lost...