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Ocean Roar

Mount Eerie

Ocean Roar

Phil Elverum collaborates with a number of other musicians in his Mount Eerie guise, creating lo-fi, folk tinged psychedelia

ADM rating[?]

7.8

Label
P.W. Elverum & Sun
UK Release date
04/09/2012
US Release date
04/09/2012
  1. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    Elverum has created an album that demands your time and attention, not to mention any memories you may be willing to part with
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  2. 8.6 |   Beats Per Minute

    It creates its own grand, unique world of beauty and destruction that rests on simple personal experiences
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  3. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    These songs, particularly those on Clear Moon, are the most transparent and melodically dynamic that Elverum has penned since The Glow pt. 2
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  4. 8.1 |   Pitchfork

    Full of the kind of observations you find time to make only when you haven't talked to anyone for a few weeks
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  5. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    It is a profound statement of an artist trying to find a sense of belonging, and it is rather sublime to wander along with this album’s creator and get a sense of one’s own mortality
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  6. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Elverum takes the space of Ocean Roar‘s 40 minutes to perfectly capture how it feels to be Phil Elverum, to live inside his head, as it looks out into the ocean’s horizon
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  7. 8.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Mount Eerie’s latest endeavor is yet another adventurous bout into experimentation that displays why Phil Elverum is one of music’s most astonishingly brilliant minds
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  8. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Exists deep in extreme nature. Print edition only

  9. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    From unforgiving seas to rain-drenched walks through the evergreens, he ropes you right into a very particular, personal experience
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  10. 6.5 |   Bowlegs

    For those moments when the clouds part, or when you sense you are in the eye of the storm, Ocean Roar offers some very special moments
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