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In contradiction to what appears to be the accepted opinion I prefer Phil Elverum under the Mt Eerie moniker to his work as The Microphones. Now the ever prolific Elverum has put out another record, a six-track EP entitled Black Wooden Ceiling Opening, which finds him in a heavy mood, reinterpreting some old songs. The recordings were made in November 2006 in a session in which Elverum claims to have been exploring a new darker, more hardcore sound. Typically melancholy, and not lacking Mt Eerie's imagery or familiar lo fi sound the EP still marks a perhaps more marked deviation [...]

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