Album Review: The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
“Thus, in the Testament of Elverum, the Crow-era albums form the New Testament; the story of his life in the last five years. This makes Microphones in 2020 the Book of Genesis, written as an account of the creation of his musical universe in his late teens and early 20s. Now Only saw him reflect on his younger self a little, comparing his youthful wildness to Tarzan and Walt Whitman, but Microphones in 2020 delves deeper, giving us a more primordial origin story. Or maybe it’s just one long 45-minute song written to prove that the moniker The Microphones means nothing.”
I wrote about Phil Elverum’s ‘return’ to his old band The Microphones, Microphones in 2020. His work has come to mean a lot to me in recent years, so it’s no surprise I went long on this one for Beats Per Minute.
