After a prolific run within the late 2010s wrestling with grief, reminiscence, and the burden of existence, Phil Elverum hasn’t launched an album since 2020’s staggering sonic memoir Microphones In 2020. Today he’s again together with his first music since that album.
Released as soon as extra beneath the identify Mount Eerie, “Huge Fire” is the final observe on COLORS, a twentieth anniversary compilation from Tokyo’s 7e.p. Records. The tracklist consists of quite a lot of Elverum’s friends from the lo-fi indie sphere, a lot of them from the Pacific Northwest or Japan, together with Lou Barlow, Tori Kudo, Mirah, Jason Lytle, Spencer Krug, Julie Doiron, Hisako Tabuchi, Quasi, Little Wings, Karl Blau, Calvin Johnson’s Selector Dub Narcotic, Nikaido Kazumi, Versus, +/-, Tara Jane O’Neil, Tim Kinsella, Nicholas Krgovich, and extra.
“Huge Fire” is a loud, bass-driven observe that represents an unfamiliar aesthetic for Elverum, whilst his signature meek vocal type stays. He sings of constructing an inferno to dissipate “all the wrecked up things I haul with me around.” Listen to the music beneath, the place you may as well discover the total COLORS comp.