The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2

[@aubreylear]

this is dreadful

[@mappplesirrup8473]

lovely

[@nowherelift]

In which sense?

[@wesplay23]

@@nowherelift in the best sense. it’s dreadfully amazing

[@nowherelift]

@@wesplay23 hell yeah

[@aubreylear]

@@nowherelift yes.

[@borp6912]

I played this in the art room back in college, and this one girl said, “can whoever put on this emo crap turn it off?” Good times.

[@tuesday6597]

did you turn it off?

[@onty-op5587]

trash hope he didn't

[@realtimechemistry3864]

but it so GOOOD

[@lombremic4840]

Shocking, absolutely shocking

[@sammieslaterjr.8982]

there'd be no end to my jail time if someone did that

[@hihello-sx1sx]

This happened to my buddy Eric

[@jonahw5587]

Ye me too when he went to the

[@hihello-sx1sx]

@@jonahw5587 him when he the

[@jrdnsgrarchvs9163]

Yeah he really did

[@tysonnelson1532]

good comment, really funny and niche reference to internet culture. Fuck you.

[@hihello-sx1sx]

@@tysonnelson1532 LMAO

[@yep8706]

This will now go on my gangsta rap play list.

[@mappplesirrup8473]

the flow pt 2

[@SadCP]

Maybe not gangsta rap but have a look @ goodspeed by 999 heartake sabileye

[@sophisticatedluna6503]

Drill playlist* oldman

[@jtotheulian708]

@@mappplesirrup8473 lol

[@lizardman7718]

It always amazes me how some musical artists can completely NAIL the sound they were going for. Like, this sounds EXACTLY like being in the forest on a cold night. Beautiful.

[@davidvillamonte2007]

Bro, I love your name

[@lizardman7718]

@@davidvillamonte2007 I wanted it to be accurate

[@soybeaner85]

Good job copying the other dudes comment but slightly different

[@lizardman7718]

@@soybeaner85 I have literally no idea what you’re talking about. It’s definitely possible that someone has said this before, but I was just speaking my mind. Sorry if I’m not original enough for you. I’ll do better next time.

[@soybeaner85]

This album sound like it was hand crafted by someone in the middle of the forest in winter. Beautiful. This was the comment posted above yours lol

[@KJlegend18]

I remember listening to this while on a bus to sweden. It was literally the perfect aesthetic to listen to this record. The snowcovered trees in the dark forest outside. The atmosphere. The moon. I remember almost falling asleep when suddenly. SAMURAI FUCKING SWORD LITERALLY GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK.

[@surroundgatari]

I live in Sweden and today I took a walk through a semi-suburbian semi-forest area. It was so perfect, light rain, grey sky, getting dark and at around the start of The Moon very intense wind started hitting me. I've seen what it looks like in Anacortes where Phil grew up and it's similar to here. I feel like Phil share's the same kind of appreciation for this type of climate that we do. One question though: how did you sleep through Map and I Want To Be Cold? lol

[@saram6626]

toffeebomb i live in sweden as well, music such as this does make the terrible winters far more durable. i wish i can roadtrip through the whole country with my friends one day, and to listen to music such as this during the nighttime with them. that'd be beautiful.

[@kristianstanley6024]

were you treated for your cardiac arrest well? i hear they have good healthcare

[@KJlegend18]

@@kristianstanley6024 unfortunately, despite excellent scandinavian healthcare I am dead, writing all of this from the other side. The world is a beautiful place, appreciate it while you're here.

[@timothypolk9841]

KJ sick

[@TheseBitchesWantNikes]

This album sounds like it was hand-crafted by someone lost deep in the middle of a forest during winter. Pure beauty.

[@dirtysouth359]

It exactly sounds like that wtf you're right

[@daedliy963]

@@dirtysouth359 the scary part is that if you treat mount erie as a continuation.. it's very true

[@centaurgaming2164]

@@daedliy963 isn’t it actually the story that he spent his time alone in the woods writing this ?

[@Beforeitsgone00]

Dawg imma be real I live in Washington and it 100% was I can assure you

[@subi_legacy]

ok

[@timothyburgin5098]

First time I showed my dad a song from this album: " it's ok". 1 month later I hear him listening to it all the way through

[@thespiritualfishlad4153]

I read that as "my dog" lmao

[@fernandodelgado6813]

maybe he just wanted a window onto you and a way to understand

[@BriannaShockley]

Which song?

[@eatthem5829]

Its a glower ... ... it has to glow on you ... several listens necessary

[@lollercoaster2010]

THERES NO END

[@saltehthesaltysquid7722]

Can we all agree that the transition from I Want Wind To Blow to The Glow Pt. 2 is one of the best things ever?

[@missoshirou]

definitively

[@blob7180]

best transition ever

[@randalabra3852]

Literally the most emotionally intense transition I've ever heard

[@johngerygooz3251]

I'm listening to this album for the first time right now, and it caught me off guard.

[@juliusseizure591]

What transition lol

[@MrWoweeZowee]

I'm not dead, There's no end, My face is red, My blood flows harshly, My heart beats loudly. My chest still draws breath I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.

[@tylerkeller7120]

why did this show up as this part played

[@poppa3331]

@@tylerkeller7120 love when that happens

[@iceblinkluck8182]

MY BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD FLOWS HARSHLY

[@icewings_intotheclouds]

that part almost made me cry while i was taking a walk with my dog

[@johngerygooz3251]

@@tylerkeller7120 Literally happened to me now.

[@mirkaSmith]

that moment at 2 am when you find some new awesome stuff to hear for the rest of your life

[@tehAgil]

savm exactly me atm

[@Matt-gw6nc]

MS.vellichor it's actually 1:43 am

[@capkid9978]

omg me now

[@gabrielbarbeau4713]

MS.vellichor 2:53 Man Ahahah fucking amazing

[@flozeraps1668]

Discovered 220am

[@yurupivo3507]

I listened to this album for the first time in my senior year of high school. I was expecting some Neutral Milk Hotel type arrangement. When I finished the album, I just felt depressed. Not the kind of self-pitying depression that makes oneself feel important and real, like you get from The Smiths, either. The kind of miserable where your heart just sinks into your chest and you realize that you are just an insignificant ape-thing on a rock in outer space, hurtling towards towards inevitable destruction. And that everything you think and feel is just a temporary distraction. I really think that's what Phil Elverum strives for in this middle period of his career. To force the listener to grasp the inconsequentiality of their existence. You could get mauled by a bear and the world will just keep turning. Nowadays, it seems like Phil's views on life are more measured and nuanced. Obviously, we mean something to someone, so therefore, our lives must have some kind of meaning. That's what A Crow Looked At Me and NOW ONLY are about, I think. So yeah, when you're young, maybe stick to Camus and The Smiths before plunging one's fist into a more morbid interpretation of absurdism.

[@mc_kublai]

YuruPivo lmao what’s up dude, I think you’re subscribed to me. Could I ask, as a fan of Camus, could you recommend some absurdist authors/writers who conform to the more morbid interpretations as you said? I’d really appreciate it

[@jackpivarnik1278]

Genghis Kon lol i just remembered i commented this on my old account. i don't read that much absurdist literature, but i pretty much consider any optimistic nihilism to be some form of absurdism. i'm sure if you punch in optimistic nihilism onto goodreads you'll find a ton of great books. nihilism often wraps itself around what we might call absurdism today. even nietzsche didn't consider himself a nihilist. you can thank the nazis for that.

[@versuliu1424]

fuck you.

[@tylerthecreation998]

Don't diss The Smiths now

[@quinnnosbod3673]

@@jackpivarnik1278 what's your opinion on a crow looked at me

[@shoebill13]

the fact that that one low piano key keeps playing consistently throughout the entirety of the album freaks me out to this day. this album is a masterpiece and a mystery

[@wiresandcords]

And the foghorn at the end of some songs too, I love the little things added to this album to set the scene to each song

[@neonvelvet7219]

I remember discovering this album during one of the lowest points in my life. It was in the midst of the pandemic when everything was shutting down. My girlfriend left me, my dog died, my parents were on the verge of being sent to prison, I was failing college, I was laid off from work because of the pandemic, I was drinking alone every night, and on top of that I had nobody to talk to about anything. However, this album is one of the many that helped me feel like it was worth fighting through all the pain, no matter how bad it got or how dark my thoughts were becoming. Thanks for the album, Microphones :)

[@ugiswrong]

Lol you’re emo

[@ironhebo4957]

how are you doing now bro?

[@robf1557]

hope you're managing, sending love

[@alydanilo4229]

Sorry for my bad English, I don't speak very well. The first time that I heard this album, I knew a girl, she told me all her story and it was very sad. Then, I began to make drawns for her, mmmm I'll want see happiness in her face. Unbelievable, this album inspirated me and I maked incredible drawns for that girl. She was so happy :'). This is a very depressing album and very beautiful too, it full me of happinness and melancoly when I hear it. Thanks Phil :')

[@sam-cq2fy]

It do be like that sometimes

[@its_a_poncho]

dude this is so wholesome ;w;

[@nyancat8655]

that’s so cute!!

[@TheseBitchesWantNikes]

Awww

[@echoesouth]

Literally one of the most beautiful comments i've ever read, i hope you're still with her.

[@xavierkelly4126]

Hey this dude sounds alot like mount eerie

[@p4rk756]

is this irony?

[@brig.badger2896]

Who?

[@loathy4528]

He even used their name for an album...weirddddddd

[@pukeyourguts]

this meme was bullshit from the start

[@Benjo787]

@@p4rk756 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@thesensiblesocialist]

Phil Elverum is one of the most interesting musicians alive imo.

[@ng3933]

Certainly one of the best songwriters alive imo

[@simonrichards5718]

nomeansno pfp and apex twin username nice lol

[@zackzallie8735]

Phil Elverum and Thom Yorke imo

[@ALTROTOPIA]

@@zackzallie8735 I feel like the more I discover new music the more thom becomes less interesting. still really like Radiohead, they just aren’t as adventurous as some people claim they are.

[@Max-cz3iy]

Him and Jeff magnum

[@dominicauclair4026]

I remember when i bought this album back in 2004 i was having the shittiest time at trying to be an adult, now I listen to it again and realize I haven't made any progress.

[@GhostFoxGoddess]

it's okay

[@richiehennessy2585]

I laid an egg

[@borp6912]

You're kayaking in the ocean in your profile pic, thats pretty cool. Follow your excitement, it will take you where you need to go.

[@diegopineda733]

Jesusss, your comment took me off guard hope You are fine now

[@mathewmaccenzie5006]

This is the album i listen to whenever Autumn starts and if i manage to escape to nature for the weekend i blast it on my car and my little son loves it

[@julianlikescats]

your son is gonna have one killer music taste when he grows up

[@DEMONLORD6561]

I wish this album was my gf

[@Duskworker]

ahaha... ha... aha... ha... ow

[@XxuplmxX]

I intemperate it as him trying to come to terms with a failed relationship by returning "to the place where you were from" and this bring up a whole bunch of forgotten feelings and regret.

[@dblck9]

interpretate

[@apeking7099]

I wish I had one in general. lol

[@Gilbertify1]

I wish my gf didn’t make me listen to this to cope with our breakup hehe

[@jimmypaul23]

So good. it's been years. I got to play drums for Phils set about 14 years ago. I was so nervous and honored. I love this music/album and hope ya enjoy it. And thanks for making it available, too.

[@MotivationPassionAction]

That's awesome. U still active in music ?

[@augustportland]

My band's guitarist's Dad played euphonium on this album and now he is the co-producer for our band alongside me (he's also Karl Blau's brother). I've never had the pleasure of meeting Phil in person but perhaps some day. He's a local legend in these parts.

[@breakbeat_hardcore]

Alex Eliason what track has the Euphonium? i never noticed it

[@arhamchowdhury6173]

@@breakbeat_hardcore prob the moon

[@fuccboihermit13]

Damn that’s crazy, how’d you manage to land that gig??

[@itsmethemusicman4704]

my favourite thing about this album is that even though it's the kind of perfect once-in-a-lifetime work that any artist dreams of being involved with, phil elverum still managed, 20 years on, to create another 12 or so albums of incredible artistry and weight

[@lunarity711]

what's crazy is that i'd say there are at least 4 other phil elverum albums better then this which is an insane thing to say

[@qtticus]

@@lunarity711i think there’s like 4 that are almost as perfect but this will always be my fave phil album

[@sisyphuswasnthappy5237]

Hot damn, the second song already had me in tears

[@theloopyhermit1228]

I like and dislike your username

[@AdudenamedKemp]

And you evidently listened to Giles Corey, so that's saying something

[@breadmoneyarchival]

Freezing to Death: the Original Soundtrack

[@summerofgeorge1327]

Carlos Diaz „i write down good reasons freeze to death“

[@benjaminlarkin3933]

SummerOfGeorge the summer of George!

[@theproblemmustbeinyourpant5910]

I want to be cold

[@MrWarenia]

I dont think I'll ever hear another album with such strong first four opening tracks

[@randalabra3852]

Literally perfect

[@ewanmcgrath2870]

this album makes me want to travel to deserted mountains and scream at the top of my lungs

[@lombremic4840]

Cringe

[@idkbutilikerice739]

@@lombremic4840 no, u

[@Whattheheckdude02]

And then get mauled by a mountain lion

[@borp6912]

Asserting your dominance as an Alpha, then a bear walks by and says "sup loser"

[@1leeek]

@@Whattheheckdude02samurai sword

[@diegomo1413]

I just found out this album was released on 9/11 💀

[@fuzzfiend]

Brother, no it wasn't

[@sirius7737]

@@fuzzfiend It was

[@DeroriMusic]

@@fuzzfiend yeah, it was :(

[@seign6703]

the original barbenheimer

[@fuzzfiend]

@@sirius7737 shit

[@waldornprime5567]

52:42 ah yes, jumpscare, my favorite indie folk song

[@Sunkenballs12]

I think the album cover would make a great blotter paper for LSD

[@Sound8VisionVibe]

Thats the bad thing about blotters, ya never see any of the REALLY good shit getting printed, it’s just cartoons and bands from the 60’s. No Animal Collective blotters, no Microphones Blotters, No Deerhunter blotters. You, my friend, have opened a mind.

[@hospicemorrison7621]

Somebody in Canada agreed with this comment like, a lot, no joke

[@curseyehamewho]

what an absolute madman

[@arcade5765]

is this album good to listen to on lsd?

[@meltedusb7533]

@@arcade5765 prolly

[@melfmz1509]

This album is what it feels like to find an old book from your childhood in a basement.

[@eliasmsv3156]

The album cover looks like the book you find

[@plasticprophets]

@@eliasmsv3156 I would love to own the original cookbook

[@llywelyngruffydd8474]

Perfect comment

[@fernandosamachado]

I wonder if somehow an old dutch person that owned that book came across this album, saw the cover, and then remembered. I actually have an original copy that i bought from an online dutch used market lol. It was surprisingly easy to find, and cheap. you should try to get one if you havent :) I'm gonna frame it on my wall soon. its beautiful @@plasticprophets

[@kidghidorah]

this album is like Aeroplane Over The Sea if Anne Frank cheated on Jeff Mangum

[@ereeeeennn]

LMAO

[@radiofreeacab]

hahahaha

[@jaschabull2365]

I thought I Felt Your Shape was giving me Aeroplane Over The Sea vibes.

[@avvvqvvv99]

wait a minute, this album is about getting cucked?

[@unseen575]

@@avvvqvvv99 Once you understand this album, you will wish you didn't.

[@dddfdhjs]

this album will hold a special place in my heart for the rest of my life

[@aznpinoyutot]

Same here.

[@alydanilo4229]

Same here too👋.

[@elliotjackypiggygambetta]

same here too :3

[@iraiflauzino9779]

that's fine, you can keep it in your heart i'll not contain you

[@person7843]

the fkn moon is still my favorite song to this day bro

[@concars1234]

i went back and wished I hadn't

[@thewildkindness1930]

This album might just be the best album of the 21st century. It’s difficult to do such a creative and grand album with a lo-fy aesthetic and the way Phil Elvrum connects its listeners is out of this world. It’s weird thinking this is the best album of the 21st century, imagine what most people’s reactions would be if you told them this is the best album of the century and you played it to them for the first time.

[@unofficialmajima617]

based NITW fan

[@_hiras]

​@@unofficialmajima617 all nitw fans are based

[@WFly101]

Not at all lmfao. I can name many albums better than this. I'll start: 1. Audioslave - Audioslave 2. Songs for The Dead - QOTSA 3. Phobia - Breaking Benjamin 4. Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed 5. The Stage - Avenged Sevenfold

[@UntitledKirk]

Each song on this album reminds me of individual dreams one might have throughout the night. Metaphorical lyrics and that eerie drone sound in between songs, representing the transition between dreams.

[@rockkiller124]

+UntitledKirk Hey, since I've seen you so much, what's your top 10 albums of all time?

[@stevendiaz3206]

+rockkiller124 that picture........ Where have I seen that.......?

[@BorgusBingo]

+Steven Diaz ded gribs

[@mPixelPop]

I read this and heard that first drone. You're magical. ☆

[@supermanlycool]

A perfect blend of noise and folk. This album is like ITAOTS' more intense older brother.

[@pippincovington1348]

+supermanlycool why do people post long band acronyms as if everyone knows what they refer to?

[@pippincovington1348]

Noah Fisher I very well may know what that is, but I dont immediately recognize the obnoxious acronym.

[@BUFFALO_cougar_slayer]

+Pippin Covington In the Aeroplane Over the Sea; on the off chance you're bluffing lol

[@supermanlycool]

+Pippin Covington Sorry dude I assumed that anyone listening to this album would recognize that acronym. It's fairly popular.

[@BUFFALO_cougar_slayer]

supermanlycool All that said, this reminds me a little more of Under the Western Freeway than ItAOtS. I hear more Jason Lytle than Jeff Mangum in Phil's vocal and lyrical style. I hear the musical similarities to NMH, but the vocal differences are night and day to me to say the least

[@thecooldrawingguy]

This album means the world to me, but I always forget it exists. I forget how it feels, the comfort, the pain, and memories of it all. Until I put it on. I feel everything at once the millisecond it starts. This album is fucking perfect, man.

[@mightguy123456]

My BloooOOOOOOOOOOD flows harshly!

[@Billkeys123]

10/10 I took my shirt of in the yard

[@seign6703]

greatest three track run ever

[@Opossum_queen]

If I could live inside an album, please let this be this one. Even though the heavy and dense foliage of this forest, the rays of sunshine that come through are more than enough to light the way through your travel among it; and to keep you warm enough, like that crinkling campfire that you also set up at night; to see the immense starry sky. You can feel the gentle rustle of the leaves on your feet, the roughness of the woods which walk among with your sight and hands, and the violent blow of the wind through your body. You can feel yourself walking among the autumn rains, the warm springs, the snowy winters, and the humid summers within the hour-long this album lasts. And when it's all over, you feel like it was all a dream. One that you will never forget and wish every day you have again. Beautiful beyond words, timeless beyond the human conception of time. I'll gladly come back to get lost in these woods every day.

[@EVILTRICKZ29]

It’s one of these hidden gems which you never get or fully appreciate at first listen, but after a while you come back to it and realizes how splendid it is. Truly a magician this M. Elverum. I saw him in concert last year and his performance of Microphones in 2020 truly blew me away, he’s an unsung hero

[@mikehaigh9154]

Mansion could be the most spine tingling coolest 2 or 3 minutes of music I have ever heard. The whole album is genius!

[@alydanilo4229]

I'm Latino, but I speak a bit of English xd. The Mansion, for me, is an incredible song, Phil could "capture" the atmosphere and feelings if someone finds an old house or mansion in the middle of the forest. I have lived that experience, the aura that it transmits is very powerful.

[@maritaxi3524]

I go to sleep with this album, and I pray to God that I doze off before Samurai Sword hits.

[@singularity6065]

Does samurai sword not wake you up? Wtf

[@maritaxi3524]

@@singularity6065 My sleeps tend to be deep as hell, like no dreams till just before I wake up. So, nope hahaha.

[@CEOGities]

I can’t put into words how much I love this album

[@declanwarner4835]

This is quite possibly my favorite album of all time and the album cover is fantastic as well.

[@turquoisehexagonsun6922]

YOOOO WASSUP lol I found you here!

[@creekandseminole]

I love this album, but the title track was jammed a lot by me back in college when I was going through serious suicidal depression. That was around 2009 when the album was re-released on double cd. I still jam it though and my depression isn't bad like it once was. I can appreciate the album more with a love for the creative aspect of it and not the necessity of needing to listen to it to feel something. I used to do the same with Nick Drake and Joy Divison...

[@briganda13]

stfu

[@brianmeeth1512]

+briganda13 chill

[@BUFFALO_cougar_slayer]

I feel ya. Bonnie "Prince" Billy's I See a Darkness helped with my depression a lot. It almost sounds better when I'm in that kind of mood. Music is more valuable than most people realize.

[@BokorChannel]

hey I found you at animal collectives sung tongs

[@stevebean1234]

title track still comes out for me wrt suicidal depression

[@_.HENRY319]

I went through the entire comment section while listening to the album. It’s interesting how so many people have the shared feeling of insignificance when listening to this album. There’s just this one emotion I feel whenever I enter this album. It is hard for me not to focus on it. It makes me feel so vulnerable. It’s so understanding and it’s such a unique album. You would think that an album with such a similar impact to so many people it would be accessible and easy to get into but it truly rips your heart out and stabs it over and over again. It’s abrasiveness doesn’t even affect me, I love how safe I feel when I’m listening to this album but it’s so painful to my emotions as well

[@pandalilpig]

first heard this record at 20 in a pitch black room, never been the same since.

[@mr.nazareth4501]

I haven't been the same since I took shrooms to this albim

[@MrJackRavenscroft]

Situations I have been in while listening to this album: 1) Running up and down a mountain 2) Sitting in a coffee shop in a train station watching people go by and contemplating the outrageously complex nebula of connections and experiences contained within these insignificant beings (I include myself within this group of insignificant beings) 3) Long road trips 4) Long bike rides 5) In my room staring off into space 6) In the shower singing along ("IIIIIII" took my shirt off in the yaaaard) 7) In the bath 8) Digging 9) Punching stuff 10) Walking in the woods thinking about the irrelevence of pretty much everything I'm doing right now 11) With a clear mind

[@ralphconnolly4704]

+Jack R Yeah me too dood, I listened to this while: 1) taking a shit it was pretty cosmic

[@darrenpopovich3671]

I listened to this whilst deeply huffing a bowl of my own farts...it was...transcendental

[@Audalyst]

I listen to this while biking or playing video games.

[@URLIRL]

Tfw to smart

[@alaskaminnie644]

Jack R wow, marry me?

[@athiede1712]

This whole album feels like a dream. I love the sounds, it really sounds like being lost in a forest.

[@FinalSentinel]

Just listened to this album for the first time. At first I was confused. Then I was in awe. By 40 minutes I was tearing up and rocking out at the same time. Finally the headbanging set in. What a brilliant fucking album.

[@melo4087]

The definition of a beautiful unorthodox music..

[@imwavey6905]

DOOM

[@melo4087]

+Kid Koenma get the money like curls..

[@post.hack.depression]

+MH DOOM u just tryna get a nut like squirrels

[@melo4087]

+The Great Magnet I'm just trying to live in the "land of milk and honey with the swirls".

[@post.hack.depression]

+MH DOOM where reckless naked girls get necklaces of pearls?

[@sitheach]

Happy 20th Birthday to the greatest album ever

[@uhohspaghettio9940]

this some good wiggly air

[@JH-fb3mp]

Yesterday I dropped acid, stripped to my shorts, curled up in a big tree, and listened to this whole album. Best I've felt in months

[@cinzio4615]

How are you doing now?

[@aeonautic]

Good album to cry to.

[@accurtis2763]

jagged, heaving, uneven. this album is more human than most people I know. masterwork.

[@RallyLancer95]

This is one of my perfect album at perfect times album. I have a specific memory of being at a track meet in 2012. It was just one of the rainiest days ever. We set up a tent in the bleachers windbreakers on hoods up huddled together for warmth. I sat there on that crisp rainy spring day and stared at the overcast gray sky, my breathe visible while this album entered my ears through my headphones. And I thought about life. It was...something else. I always look back to that as one of the most peaceful moments of my life. Just thought I'd share an interesting moment of my past

[@surroundgatari]

8:00 Knock knock Who's there? Crushing Crushing who? Crushing emotional uncertainty

[@maximoplf]

Hear this first like 12 years ago and didn't like at first. Now it's one of my favorite records. I guess some music takes time/maturity to be fully appreciated.

[@aptmix]

I think that's true with a lot of my favorite bands, but even if it's off-putting at first, something pulls us back to it though...maybe there's a deeper message in that somewhere

[@alejandromontanez2977]

this has been hovering in my suggestions for the longest time, so glad I finally clicked it

[@theunionoftheblueshirtedon7213]

Alejandro Montañez you were missing out

[@eero4516]

what do you think of this album?

[@jackpivarnik1278]

Shit's definitely going wrong in my life whenever I feel the need to listen to this more than once a day.

[@jamesrendall7216]

This album is perfect.

[@ijustgotreallystoned638]

I want to be cold is so fucking beautiful, the contrast between the noisy, gritty guitar and the quiet melodies Phil dishes out is fucking genius. And the switch where the guitar quiets down and the song takes a sudden focus on Phil is mind-bending.

[@zenscape87]

the second instrumental track is fantastic

[@EleosStar]

+zenscape87 They all are

[@ry.poopyman]

This album sounds like confidently walking into a dark forest and quite literally never returning back

[@cryingmakesmehorny4632]

This album feels like being an emo teenager who apparently lives in a forest

[@8064goldenstar]

This album feels like losing all sense of pain and cutting your body in half.... In the forest

[@krell1080]

i forgive you, world.

[@accurtis2763]

Terry Dinkstein Fuck off.

[@accurtis2763]

I don't.

[@reducetheatoms]

his voice tone and the instrumental gives such joy and peacefulness to me, i try to not pay much attention to the lyrics because I don't wanna be sad but this album is definitely a jewel

[@1gnore_me.]

this album was both insanely ahead of its time, and incredibly far behind the curve at the same time

[@Opossum_queen]

this album exist in it's own separate timeline. beyond the concept of time

[@zephaniahbean]

the eerie mount microphones

[@uh8925]

I only discovered this one or two days ago. I'm about to graduate soon and in about to go off to college. I'm going to use every meaning this album has to make me more successful and cathartically happier in life, because I'm not spiraling into an endless rabbit hole of depression. I don't mean this as an offense for those that are in such situations, but if this album is telling me that I could be pitifully insignificant compared to others in this world, I'm gonna need to get my act together.

[@dinnerputter8757]

The first time I listened to this album I was on my way home from school on the bus. We always pass by this field of dead grass and shrubs with a perfect view of the mountains (I'm from az). One of the most melancholy experiences I've ever had

[@BowChickaWow]

Lol, been listening to this album on repeat in Arizona. A lot of people in the comments are saying hearing this is like being in a winter forest, but the vastness and extruding mountains, along with my mindset, really say otherwise.

[@Hyplexity]

After all these years, this album is still what I call home. I remember bawling my eyes out the first time I listened from the beginning to "My Warm Blood." What a wonderful work of art. I hope Phil is doing well.

[@collinlopez]

9:07 I love this part 😥

[@kolo5836]

Same, I think its so beautiful especially in when you consider that there is the super high energy intro and the rest of the track is building up tension in order to build that energy back up again but instead of doing what most songs would do and go back to the energy it set at the start of the track, it releases into like one of the most serene and beautiful parts of the album

[@maryfreegirl2029]

Thank god i gave folk as a genre another chance cause this and many other albums like this are now in my favourites

[@davidleach7424]

This album makes me feel whole, justified, and completely validated at times when I feel like I'm hopeless and drowning. I love Phil elverum and I wouldn't be here if it wasnt for his music. Thank you Phil, for all the tears.

[@c.kgolden5702]

Almost every word spoken in the first two tracks is like a direct transcription of my own thoughts when I try to play music. I call the Glow Pt 2 my Schizophrenic dance anthem. Pure, lo-fi beauty.

[@bozuteru2160]

My life completely changed when I found out this came out on 9/11

[@Bitchesaintshitbutgoodpeople]

Here's a little story for you people One day I was taking a walk down the road I lived on to go down to a river that I always visited during the morning to clear my head and think of things. I was in the middle of this album listening to the song "You'll be in the Air". When the sun was rising and once I got to the river the ending of the song kicked in and everything felt very... melancholic for the lack of a better word. I felt as if I didn't belong where I was, but at the same time felt security in where I was at, like I was just a peace with life but empty at the same time. That and the crashing of the rivers waves made the whole experience something I won't forget anytime soon and I think that's why I love this album so much is for the absolute feeling of emptiness that it's given me but the emptiness wasnt bad but made me think that I was just existing as one person in a place full of billions of other people that feeling of insignificance really draws me to this album and it's why I think anyone who's into indie/folk should listen to this album.

[@zarahsantoshernandez9122]

Awesome

[@theralphster3260]

this is one of the greatest albums of all time

[@edgarroberts8740]

So glad I discovered this album. I've never heard anything quite like it - it's kind of like if Sufjan Stevens met Sonic Youth.

[@FUTABA-kg]

This album struck me how music could be this creative and simple at the same time. Like, with a basic knowledge of instruments, you can tell exactly how it was composed and performed, but at the same time, it sounds like something you never heard or even dreamed of before.

[@concars1234]

this album is dreampop

[@andymandy8862]

Creative != complex.

[@posteduposkar]

this album sounds like something thats been hidden in a forest and there is rumours of it being the best album oat

[@clinthurshman461]

Holy crap. How am I just now finding this?

[@MB-of2xl]

The most depressing lyric has got to be "no Golden Sun". 3 week long family trip with a GBA ruined

[@AWSOMEPOSSUM16]

It just sounds amazing from track to track, particularly the first 3. The production is endlessly inspiring.

[@nate9279]

I was up at 1:00 in the morning one night, and was feeling extremely worried about life and it kept me up.....so i decided to put my headphones in and listened to this album all the way though and just stared at my curtains blowing in the wind, afterwards i was calm and i got some sleep before school.

[@awsmdrummer62]

into the wild: the album

[@Skullkan6]

Wasn't that its own album by Eddie Vedder, the guy from Pearl Jam?

[@awsmdrummer62]

Skullkan6 i don't mean literally, but it feels like this is. that album is really good tho, eddie's

[@danielv641]

i want wind to blow might be one of the best openings tracks of all time?????

[@jesuscm1398]

Yeah

[@TaddyDoMau]

imo yes. btw, nice pfp, nfr is also a classic

[@lyleugleman9799]

who else is here after microphones in 2020 made u weep like a child

[@1noah23]

I'm listening to it right now actually haha, also nice username. Ugly Mane said he's announcing a new project soon, I'm stoked

[@L1CHTHE1M]

oh guess that's my train

[@monkoman4172]

That's me. This is far superior.

[@kidghidorah]

just finishing up the emotional triathlon of Microphones in 2020 -> A Crow Looked At Me -> The Glow Pt. 2, been crying from the start

[@lollercoaster2010]

Damn we're on one here. Been rolling through the catalog tonight. Met Phil through a coworker when I worked in anacortes in 2012. Been a fan ever since.

[@punkroxgirl1298]

I’m a trans female. I can’t come out to my Christian conservative parents because if I do they may pull me out of college and force me to come home and then I’d have to run away and it’s a lot of just what if’s. I feel trapped a lot, this album helps me deal with those feelings. Thank you Phil

[@3xpl017s]

stay strong my fellow human! Just get through college and blossom in the early days of adulthood. It will work out if you believe in it too.

[@LimeCultivist]

This is incredible. Also I somehow just noticed that foghorn tying it all together

[@stancedstyfon1234]

Lmsln ? What are you talking about?

[@thatswhatsgood24]

CALEB KITTS the "foghorn" at the end of songs

[@StrawberryJamMan]

LimeC The Foghorn appears in Phil's other albums, Mount Eerie specifically features the foghorn throughout the album.

[@paragraphs7235]

i think Mount Eerie is actually the sequel to the glow and that's why the fog horn theme stays in it

[@StrawberryJamMan]

Paragraphs All of Phil's releases under the Microphones chronicles the exploits of the hero until his death and rebirth at the end of Mount Eerie. Going on under the Mount Eerie moniker, most of the albums are self contained stories with revisitations here and there to earlier themes. It's been years since I last looked but there used to be an interview floating around where Phil explained the plot with a map of the song islands.

[@benjaminlarkin3933]

The gleam pt 2 is one of the best tracks I’ve heard in my entire life

[@fletcherFraher]

One of the most atmospheric albums of all time, I love phil elverum

[@baphonaut7278]

We're gonna get lost in the woods, listen to The Glow pt.2, and get in touch with our natural selves!

[@nohope2426]

Sounds great

[@mikogale]

i enjoy the contrast of i felt your shape and samurai sword immensely

[@kid3905]

This feels so calming yet so haunting.

[@witz]

Been listening to this album since freshman year of highscool and recently it inspired me to pick up a guitar. Its gonna take a long time for me to get anywhere with it but atleast I have something to look forward too during these dark times.

[@billieily4239]

One of the best albums in the existence of the entire multiverse.