Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron: Tiny Desk Concert
Phil Elverum shares his open wounds — of death, love and the loss of love — in close harmonies, accompanied only by electric and nylon-string guitars.
Phil Elverum's songs come full circle, swooping down like vultures and floating up like ashes from flames. Throughout his work in and The Microphones, idealism comes up against realism, existence entangles with impermanence and love discovers new forms. So when he sings, "Let's get at the Tiny Desk, there's a history going back nearly two decades to an isolated cabin in Norway where he first wrote the phrase.
