The Microphones - The Glow pt.2

The Microphones - The Moon

Absolutely fantastic track. Use of many different instruments, fuzz and if you look up the lyrics there's a sad narrative that makes the music all the more beautiful.

Might be my new favourite album here. This is Mount Eerie before it was, you know, ‘Mount Eerie’. It’s a very folk-y album with lots of low-fi influenced sounds. There’s a lot of fuzz, loud drumming but at the same time a complete opposite with a lot of mellow guitar sections and enchanting melodies. Bit of horn work, piano and those Jamaican iron drums as well. Oh and talent.

Past that point, Phil Elverum’s voice is airy and holds a good range. It’s also very clean and most of the lyrics on the track are easy to pick just by listening, but they never blew me away until I read them properly. The Moon has been one of my favourite tracks on the album – maybe even my complete favourite – but it was one of the few tracks where I could never hear the lyrics properly. Upon reading them, there’s this depth and power to the song that I never grasped before.

It’s difficult to draw criticisms on an album that’s so good. A vague, half criticism could be that the use of fuzz might be a bit jarring for first time listeners, but you’ll ease into it the same way you do a cold pool. A more solid criticism that I could bring up is that due to the length of the album, you might notice some scrapes of melodic repetition in either his voice or the guitars. A few of the tracks do sound relatively similar, despite having lyrical difference. But the weird thing about this is that the album is incredibly diverse outside of that. There are so many changes in mood. The tracks range from bitter-sweet  climatic, dark and brooding to emotional. An absolute spectrum of mellow folk genius.

Reccomended for: Fans of Damien Rice, The Tallest Man on Earth post wild hunt, and really anyone looking for a well constructed, laid back album.

The Microphones - The Glow pt.2

My favourite bit about this song has to be the guitar part at the end. 

It's got a lot of musical diversity like the rest of the album and several changes in mood.