Blog: Said the Gramophone

Mount Eerie - "Between Two Mysteries" . Mount Eerie's thrilling and exhausting new record, Wind's Poem , expands on the idea of "black wooden", from last year's Black Wooden Ceiling Opening . Black wooden is like black metal, but instead of roaring throaty death-voice, Phil Elvrum murmurs. The guitars distort, fuzz and howl but there is an inherent gentleness. This works for me: this kindly noise . It is how I feel on the days when I thunderstorm. And yet - yet - yet "Between Two Mysteries" is not this. It is [...]

• Mount Eerie - Between Two Mysteries
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