Lost Wisdom

Lost Wisdom
Studio album by Mount Eerie
Released October 7, 2008 (2008-10-07)
Recorded Anacortes, Washington
Genre Lo-fi indie folk
Length 24:34
Label P. W. Elverum & Sun
(ELV 019)
Mount Eerie chronology
Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7
(2007)		 Lost Wisdom
(2008)		 Dawn
(2008)
Julie Doiron chronology
Woke Myself Up
(2007)		 Lost Wisdom
(2008)		 I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
(2009)
Frederick Squire chronology
Lost Wisdom
(2008)		 Daniel, Fred & Julie
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Crawdaddy!(favorable)[2]
Dusted(favorable)[3]
Pitchfork Media8.3/10[4]
Spectrum Culture3.5/5.0[5]
Sputnikmusic[6]
Tiny Mix Tapes[7]

Lost Wisdom is an album by Mount Eerie, with Canadian musicians Julie Doiron and Frederick Squire. It was released 7 October 2008 on P. W. Elverum & Sun.[8][9]

The recording of the album was somewhat spontaneous. Doiron and Squire had a few days between a recent tour and an upcoming recording session in Olympia, Washington,[9] and made a surprise visit to Phil Elverum in Anacortes.[8] Although Elverum was reluctant to ask the two to record an album,[9] the three decided to do so and quickly recorded the album.

Elverum considers Doiron his favorite singer,[8] and says recording with her was a "dream come true" for him.[9] She was a member of Eric's Trip, an indie noise pop band from the early 1990s, and has since recorded numerous solo albums. Elverum considers Eric's Trip his favorite band of all time, and says the band is "the reason why I got into playing music".[9] On The Microphones' 2000 album It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water, he covered the Eric's Trip song "Sand" from their 1993 EP Songs About Chris. The Microphones song "I Felt You", from the 1999 album Don't Wake Me Up, samples the Eric's Trip song "May 11" from the 1993 album Love Tara.

A different version of the song "With My Hands Out" appears on Mount Eerie's 2004 release Seven New Songs, and other tracks later appeared on Dawn, released on 1 November 2008. The track "Voice in Headphones" on this album reprises the chorus from Björk's song "Undo", over a different verse. Elverum had previously covered Björk's "All Is Full of Love" on the 2001 Microphones album Blood.

The album was included in Pitchfork Media's "Best New Music" on 14 October 2008.

Track listing

All songs written by Phil Elverum.

  1. "Lost Wisdom" – 4:14
  2. "Voice in Headphones" – 2:16
  3. "You Swan, Go On" – 1:25
  4. "Who?" – 2:24
  5. "Flaming Home" – 2:29
  6. "What?" – 2:06
  7. "If We Knew…" – 1:37
  8. "With My Hands Out" – 1:39
  9. "O My Heart" – 3:17
  10. "Grave Robbers" – 1:47

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Crawdaddy! review
  3. ↑ Dusted review
  4. ↑ Pitchfork Media review
  5. ↑ Spectrum Culture review
  6. ↑ Sputnikmusic review
  7. ↑ Tiny Mix Tapes review
  8. 1 2 3 "Lost Wisdom" (pdf). Anacortes, Washington: P. W. Elverum & Sun. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Solarski, Matthew (2008-07-16). "Mount Eerie Talks Julie Doiron Collab, Tons of Releases". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
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