Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie

Folk · 2005 · 11 tracks

Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie

Eleven stark, skeletal songs recorded with nothing but a cheap Casiotone keyboard and a hushed voice, capturing the absolute isolation of a Norwegian winter.

Minimalist detour

A cheap keyboard hums in the dark, framing quiet vocals that feel like cold wind through floorboards.

Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie · vs · Mount Eerie

Lonely+2.6σ

An unprecedentedly vulnerable atmosphere emerges from these recordings, exposing the raw, unshielded solitude of a writer shivering alone in a Norwegian cabin.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks

01

Cold Mountain

3:06

02

I Say “No”

3:34

03

The Boom / (Wind)

6:00

04

The Dead of Night

4:13

05

Wooly Mammoth’s Mighty Absence

3:10

06

Great Ghosts

3:37

07

Log in the Waves

2:21

08

I Love (It) So Much

1:23

09

Goodbye Hope

2:15

10

Who?

2:25

11

See Me

2:13

Moments Worth Waiting For

01Cold MountainThe entire arrangement of 'Cold Mountain' relies on a single, unadorned keyboard preset and the audible mechanical clicking of the keys.

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