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90
Doiron’s presence and Squire’s understated electric guitar imbue the album with haunting, spectral beauty equal to anything Elverum’s done.
5y
83
The result is a collection of songs so taut and concisely resonant as to be psalms.
15y
80
Mount Eerie take many forms and sounds, showing how comfortable Elverum is with just a room and a guitar or a large cast of players performing his songs; Lost Wisdom is a small-scale gem that shows off his (and Doiron's) gifts to their finest.
14y
80
This album sinks in, each listen dry rubbing the quiescent hums and lulls into the brain like a dream half remembered.
14y
70
These songs may be threadbare, full of holes and silence. But together Elverum and Doiron have made something achingly intimate, so that it feels more complete in its fractures.
15y
70
After years of solidarity, though, Elverum thankfully finds some much-needed human contact on Lost Wisdom, his most engaging LP since he retired Tthe Microphones moniker.
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7mo
70
Lost Wisdom is about the passionless comfort that comes from familiarity and the bored resignation when introspection becomes depressing.
8y
60
Elverum is reveling in his honest moment of awe. In doing so, he has sloshed away the Norwegian frost with a mittened hand, a frost that kept these songs so chilling.
15y
Brief, but beautiful.
If you follow him since his beginnings under the name of The Microphones, you have well understood that Phil Elvrum was a sound pioneer, experimenting with distortion and lo-fi, pushing the limits of his studio to provide unpublished sounds and unique atmospheres that will be his trademark. On the other hand, what is less well known is that Elvrum is also a talented composer, or even a genius composer, and that it is the combination of these two talents that made the ... read more
Phil Elverum has always been a craftsman of sound, an explorer of raw textures and lo-fi atmospheres, often teetering on the edge of chaos. Under the alias The Microphones, he shaped a singular, unstable sonic world where distortion wasn’t just an effect it was a fundamental material. Yet behind this noisy facade lies another, quieter but equally essential talent: that of a gifted songwriter, capable of creating songs of great delicacy. And that’s precisely what Lost Wisdom, ... read more
Me with literally most of Phil’s work: GAHHHHHH ITS SO PRETTYTYYYYYYY
AHHH I really love this project. The incorporation of Julia is just so good. Their voices mix so well together and it is just pure ear candy. The songs melodies feel more memorable, and it feels like I’m floating everywhere in the vast emptiness of space and god it’s a great feeling. This honestly feels like a better version of Dawn in a way because it is very raw, but Julia’s vocals make it stand out ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Lost Wisdom 4:27 | 91 |
| 2 | Voice in Headphones 2:28 | 93 |
| 3 | You Swan Go On 1:33 | 87 |
| 4 | Who? 2:29 | 82 |
| 5 | Flaming Home 2:39 | 83 |
| 6 | What? 2:14 | 83 |
| 7 | If We Knew... 1:48 | 79 |
| 8 | With My Hands Out 1:47 | 83 |
| 9 | O My Heart 3:25 | 87 |
| 10 | Grave Robbers 1:51 | 81 |
Total Length: 24 minutes
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11mo
bro I'm listening to björk Vespertine for the first time and hearing "it's not meant to be a strife" was crazy
