Even though Phil Elverum has been active for a good while, it’s been seventeen years since he released anything under the name The Microphones. However that all changes now. With a new album Microphones in 2020 coming in August, Elverum has released a new teaser for the experimental project that reveals some of what’s in store.

Phil Everum has written a poem about the album found below.

The old smell of air
coming faintly through the spring
crack in the snow above a hibernating bear’s winter den,
the smell of long self-absorption,
burrowing into one’s own chest, re-breathing the exhales of one’s own breath,
the smell of squinting in the dark
ruminating in dreams
beneath layering years, the snow still falling.

In the dark smoldering
slowly burning through all the old clothes, sifting through the ash,
wiping old shedded fur from the eyes
nosing out into the light.

In that brief moment when the airs of the past and present meet,
at the mouth of the open bed,
egoic solidity burns away in the spring wind, self becomes fuel,
there is only now
and the past is a dream burning off.
Fragments arranged along the trail, crumbs consumed, dust blown,
no route back.

The teaser can be viewed above or on YouTube. Microphones in 2020 is available for preorder on a gate fold vinyl directly from P.W. Elverum & Sun ahead of its August 07 release. There will also be a live stream set on August 06 and a short length film version of the album. The details on the stream can be accessed here.

Image Credits: Photo by Jimi Sharp.