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Singers (album)

Field	Value
name	Singers
type	Compilation
artist	Mount Eerie
cover	SINGERS (2005).jpg
released	September 6, 2005
recorded	2000–2005
genre	Indie folk
length	30:40
label	P. W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.
(ELV 002)
producer	Phil Elverum
prev_title	"No Flashlight": Songs of the Fulfilled Night
prev_year	2005
next_title	Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie
next_year	2005

(ELV 002)

Singers is a compilation album by Phil Elverum. The album is often credited to Elverum's musical project Mount Eerie (and includes several songs which re-appear on other Mount Eerie releases), although the sleevenotes offer the following declaration: "This new band called "Singers" is born. This is the first album by Singers." The album features songs performed with a large group of singers (in some cases more than fifty individuals). The album was released on September 6, 2005.

Recording

Recording took place over 5 years often during sessions for other projects at Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, WA. Performers on the album include Jason Anderson, Zac Pennington, Anna Oxygen, Geneviève Castrée, Adam Forkner, Kyle Field, Calvin Johnson, Adrian Orange, Khaela Maricich, Dennis Driscoll and Mirah.

Reception

| }} The album received a generally positive reception. Sam Ubl of Pitchfork wrote that "his words are whittled down to deep salience then removed from any discernible context and looped ad infinitum. What sounds meaningful reads like jabberwocky."

In a retrospective review, Daniel Bromfield of Spectrum Culture wrote that "as far as pure songwriting, it’s one of Elverum’s strongest collections," while observing that its treatment of death conflicts with that on his later albums: "It’s an example of the kind of writing about 'conceptual emptiness' Elverum angrily rebuked in his recent records, made in the wake of his wife Geneviève’s death from cancer in 2016."

Track listing

References

"SINGERS".
"Mount Eerie "Singers"".
(10 December 2019). "Rediscover: Mount Eerie: Singers".

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