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Mount Eerie Revisits 'Lost Wisdom' In Part 2 Of His Album With Julie Doiron

After two albums and a live record that grieved the death of his wife Geneviève Castrée, Phil Elverum not so much returns, but revisits an older Mount Eerie to reshape the elastic meaning of love.
Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum collaborates with Julie Doiron for <em>Lost Wisdom pt. 2</em>, out Nov. 8.

Released in late 2008, Lost Wisdom occupies a cherished space in Mount Eerie's catalog, where Phil Elverum collaborated with his favorite singer, Julie Doiron, and Fred Squire. Between that album and Dawn, released just a month later, it stamped a deceptively softer moment in time for Mount Eerie, where sparse, yet decorative arrangements were vessels for quiet echoes that grew with repeat listens.

After two studio albums — and — and a live record, , that plumbed.

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