Blog: The Needle Drop

Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum drops another track from what's going to be his second full-length album this year, Ocean Roar . It's a slow, serene ballad featuring the kind of atmospheric synths that were so prevalent on this albums predecessor, Clear Moon . Some of Phil's lyrics leave me scratching my head a bit, too, but in a good way. The reference to leaving the studio at night toward the beginning of the track was a bit surprising. For Phil to be so blatantly self-referential and mention a convenience of modern living-as [...]

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