Mount Eerie reveals new track ‘Ocean Roar’ from upcoming album

Mount Eerie has revealed the title from his latest album ‘Ocean Roar,’ which will be out on September 4th (Digital / LP) via P.W. Elverum and Sun. This album is the dark counterpart to ‘Clear Moon,’ which was released earlier in 2012.

Listen to Mount Eerie’s track Ocean Roar below via Soundcloud.

According to Mount Eerie, ‘Ocean Roar’ acts as a counterpoint to the soft synth walls and landscape pondering of ‘Clear Moon,’ presenting the opposite of that album’s clear glints of awareness: a total wall of blue-grey oceanic fog, a half remembered dream of a trip through dense old growth hills to the gnarly winter ocean, in the middle of the night, decades ago. This album is the audio equivalent of the blanket of thick dark water vapor that covers the Pacific Northwest for most of the year, revealing only brief glimpses of illumination.

‘Ocean Roar’ track listing:

1. Pale Lights
2. Ocean Roar
3. Ancient Times
4. instrumental
5. Waves
6. Engel Der Luft (Popol Vuh)
7. I Walked Home Beholding
8. instrumental

‘Ocean Roar’ is perhaps more experimental than the average album. Calling these things songs only loosely applies. These are closer to studies in sound, attempts to alter the way the brain experiences its surroundings after being subjected to endless chords, repeating note flurries, stretched drones. It’s “psychedelic” in same way as seasickness or vertigo. Warmth and distortion, burning driftwood, 9 months of rain.

Tour dates:
Aug 25th – Rochester, WA @ Helsing Junction Sleepover
Aug 26th – Astoria, OR @ Kala Hipfish Space
Aug. 27th – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Sept. 2nd – Olympia, WA @ Northern
Sept. 3rd – Missoula, MT @ Zoo City
Sept. 5th – Minneapolis, MN @ CO Exhibitions
Sept. 6th – Madison, WI @ University of Wisconsin, Music Hall
Sept. 7th – Oberlin, OH @ Oberlin College
Sept. 8th – Albany, NY @ Rest Fest, at St. Joseph’s Church
Sept. 9th – Buffalo, NY @ 9th Ward at Babeville
Sept. 10th – Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall
Sept. 11th – Syracuse, NY @ Badlands
Sept. 12th – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa
Sept. 13th – Burlington, VT @ Studio A at North End Studios
Sept. 15th – Brooklyn, NY @ 285 Kent
Sept. 16th – Manhattan, NY @ (le) Poisson Rouge *
Sept. 17th – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Sept. 18th – Washington, DC @ Montserrat House
Sept. 19th – Durham, NC @ Duke University
Sept. 20th – Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle
Sept. 21st – Louisville, KY @ Quill’s Coffee
Sept. 22nd – Chicago, IL @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
Sept. 23rd – Ames, IA @ the Orange Gentleman / Maximum Ames festival
Sept. 24th – Omaha, NE @ DP Muller Studio
Sept. 25th – Lawrence, KS @ Lawrence Arts Center
Sept. 26th – Norman, OK @ Opolis
Sept. 27th – Austin, TX @ the Parish
Sept. 29th – Marfa, TX @ TBA
Sept. 30th – Tucson, AZ @ Topaz #
Oct. 1st – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom #
Oct. 2nd – Los Angeles, CA @ Public Fiction #
Oct. 3rd – Los Angeles, CA @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts #
Oct. 4th – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill #
Oct. 5th – Oakland, CA @ Lobot #
Oct. 8th – Chico, CA @ Origami Lounge #
Oct. 10th – Eugene, OR @ Old Whiteaker Firehouse #
Oct. 11th – Portland, OR @ Backspace #

* = w/ Loren Mazzacane Connors
# = w/ Bouquet

For more information on Mount Eerie, visit pwelverumandsun.com.