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Black Wooden
Folk · 2009 · 6 tracks · 21m

Black Wooden

Six tracks of damp, wood-smoke folk recorded in a London studio with a borrowed guitar. Sparse, hypnotic, and deeply rooted in Pacific Northwest isolation.

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It sounds like Phil Elverum recorded a bunch of quiet, spooky campfire songs in a cold room with a borrowed guitar.

A quiet, moss-covered isolation that feels both comforting and slightly eerie.

Black Wooden · vs · Mount Eerie
Brooding+1.2σ

Brooding saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 6 Tracks · 21m
01
Black Wooden
6:03
02
The Bottomless Pit
2:13
03
If We Knew
2:01
04
Appetite
3:21
05
Marriage
5:47
06
Mount Eerie Revealed (version)
2:22
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the title track opens with a stark, repetitive acoustic guitar pattern that feels like walking deeper into a dense, dark forest.
The sudden, hollow thuds of wooden percussion on 'The Bottomless Pit' that sound like someone knocking on the side of a boat in deep water.
The quiet, lingering organ drone that sneaks under the final moments of 'Mount Eerie Revealed (version)' to ground the EP's exit.
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