All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.
Phil ElvrumI learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.
Phil ElvrumWhenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"
Phil ElvrumI didn't want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, and it started to feel like it was too much music to digest at once.
Phil ElvrumI wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.
Phil Elvrum