Pre-Human Ideas
Though his catalog may paint him as a Thoreau figure who draws mana from the trees and moss, Phil Elverum is a man wild with contradictions. See, for instance, Pre-Human Ideas, a collection of songs made entirely on GarageBand with all the vocal parts filtered through an Auto-Tune setting.
Phil Elverum's latest surprise comes in the form of an album of old Mount Eerie songs put through autotune.
In the hands of almost any other artist, the idea behind this latest release from Mount Eerie would be a ghastly one: For…
Another fascinating Mount Eerie album, Pre-Human Ideas collects electronic versions of songs from Phil Elverum's pair of ambitious 2012 releases, Clear Moon and Ocean Roar, that began as instructional demos to help touring bands learn them.
Phil Elverum recently posted a response on Tumblr to a complaint from somebody who'd bought an album from the Mount Eerie merch table and was disappointed to discover it sounded nothing like the set they'd played on that particular night. "A fundamental a