The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 POLL

yup that's a good one too.

Having relistened to It Was Hot and Mt Eerie the album since Microphones in 2020 was released, I still think this one stands handily above them. Just the right mix of catchy songs and his fantastic production decisions.

I can’t really hang with the vocals but yes this album is a huge accomplishment. I love all the stretches of empty space and I love when they rock the fuck out. What’s the song with the incredible droning strings and Mirah vocal? Is there more than one?

I saw Phil live around 2002. Towards the end of the set, a guy in a bear costume tied his legs together and lifted him up in the air with this pulley thing. So there’s Phil’s up in the air hanging up side down holding his guitar. He led the audience in a singalong of some spontaneous bear-related refrain and the bear let him down. It was pleasantly twee.

I want to be young again and listen to this album for the first time.

damn, yes. walking outside at night with this on headphones is something else. could never understand why 'it was hot we stayed in the water' didnt get bare love as well, though...

It Was Hot was "the" album for me, but Glow came out pretty soon after I got into it, so it was all kind of one big warm quilt of music in that time.

Saw the Microphones perform "Microphones in 2020" early last year in a Gothic Revival church in Brooklyn Heights --- it was absolutely tremendous, with the fuzzed-out bass vibrating through every stone in the building. A really special, brain-resetting show.

It Was Hot... was my introduction to the Microphones (about four years after it came out) and I loved it, then Glow Pt. 2 completely blew me away - the world of those albums felt so vivid and real. Elverum's body of work is incredible to me at this point really.

those two albums blend together for me too, i listened to them both a lot around the same time. the production/arrangements are amazing.