Album Recommendation: Wind’s Poem by Mount Eerie (2009)

If you’re reading this near the publish date then statistically it’s likely at least chilly outside, if not outright cold and dreary. Something about the change put me in the mood for Mount Eerie’s seminal 2009 record, Wind’s Poem. Mount Eerie (and the man behind the project, Phil Elverum) mean a lot of things to a dedicated number of people, whether it’s from the earlier Microphones projects to his grappling with his wife’s death in the devastating A Crow Looked at Me there’s a lot in the back catalog to dig into that’s worth your time. If you somehow missed Wind’s Poem however, now’s the perfect time to experience this simultaneously bleak and hopeful outing that combines elements of bedroom indie with folk, noise, drone and black metal. It can be a harrowing listen at times, but it’s a record I think about regularly for its raw emotional power and ability to completely capture you in its world.