ĬYPRESS MARRS: At the very beginning of the song “My Chasm,” you sing about bringing up Genevi è ve in conversation: “I am a container of stories about you, and I bring you up repeatedly uninvited to. That album is out today on the label Phil runs, P.W.
During the fall, Phil recorded an album called A Crow Looked at Me of stripped-down, grief-stricken songs. Only months later, Geneviève was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer she died on July 9, 2016. Eerie - seem to always be appearing as influences in indie rock, bedroom pop, or whatever we’re calling lo-fi, philosophically-minded music.Īt the end of 2014, Phil and his wife, the artist and musician Geneviève Castrée, had a baby. 2, under the moniker The Microphones when the record was reissued by K Records in 2008, Pitchfork called it Elverum’s “crowning achievement.” The sounds and images of that album, as well as those of Elverum’s more recent work - released under the name Mt. As I was scurrying around the building’s dusty halls and trying to make shoes out of construction paper, Phil was recording atmospheric songs on a 16-track about landscape and longing.
I would have been four or five and he, a teenager, was recording music in K Records’ Dub Narcotic Studio, which, as it happened, was across the hall from my artist mother’s studio. In my mind, Phil Elverum is a man who needs no introduction.
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