release date: August 16th, 2005

record label: “P.W. Elverum & Sun” of Anacortes, Wash.

catalog number: “ELV ØØ5”

format: LP (CD version included)

and: white vinyl

also: worldʼs largest album cover

(5 ft. by 3 1/2 ft. unfolded)

15 NEW SONGS:

exclusively distributed by:

SC Distribution

1499 West 2nd St.

Bloomington, IN 47403

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stores contact Nick: [e-mail]

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“No Flashlight” is the eagerly anticipated debut album by Mount Eerie (the new project of the Micro-

phonesʼs Phil Elverum). This is the album that the people have been looking forward to and speculating about

so much since Mount Eerie started playing frequent concerts of new, better, songs in early 2003.

It took so long to do this first real album because a complete overhaul was needed. The songs were made

in a little room upstairs from the bakery in Anacortes, Wash. over the course of a wet northern winter. The tra-

ditional “big sound” of the Microphones was replaced by a quieter, more intense kind of largeness; the album is

about walking in the dark until morning, pregnancy and birth, and noticing the “pregnancy” of the world at night,

and stuff like that. Every song has a lake of deep percussion carrying it along, swishing sounds, booms in stereo,

hollow knocking... It sounds like what laptop music could have been, but made by hands tapping wood.

Q: “Who is Mt. Eerie?” A: “The song, not the singer.”

Also, this is the most ambitious packaging EVER. It is a CD and a white vinyl 12” (beautiful) wrapped in

an enormous piece of paper (as big as a futon) printed on both sides. One side is a huge illustration of “walking

in the dark and noticing the pregnancy”. The other side is extremely extensive footnotes and explanations of

the songs, with references, clippings, and photos. The aim of doing it like this was to leave nothing ambiguous,

although itʼs inevitable that the explanations will be more bewildering than the songs themselves. “No Flashlight”

is an album/idea that can be eaten and digested for a long time, savoring bewilderment, noticing more.