MWaoty

Phil Elverum's sadness in his bereavement and mourning, converted into a short album.

Personally I find the combination of his very literal style of lyric writing combined with his lack of melodic singing puts up a wall for me. Each song is about the subject of his wife dying, sometimes he mentions his daughter, but mostly he finds slightly different ways to say that his wife is no longer in the house, or in a truck he drives, or that her ashes are in a cardboard box etc...

The final track ... read more

A surprise around every corner, starting with the funereal ghost march of 'Mansion' Mark Smith launches into 'Bombast' a straight up Fall type song that lulls the listener into a false sense of security - but this is just a toe tapping blast that gives way to the thrilling 'Barmey', a foretaste of the true weirdness that is to follow...
Top highlights on this album:
L.A. - a killer guitar track that most rock bands would give their eye teeth to have written
Couldn't Get Ahead - Mark punches ... read more