Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Phil Elverum Read Quote
There are parts on ‘Wind’s Poem’ that are literal recordings of wind. I had this old sound effects record that I got some wind from and then I figured out that distorted cymbals sound just like wind so I used that a lot. Phil Elverum Read Quote
My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I’d never gotten into punk. I don’t really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation. Phil Elverum Read Quote
I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that’s referential to an era or a genre, but it still sounds like me. Phil Elverum Read Quote
There’s a lot of music out there that’s like, ‘I’m so mad! I’m sad! I’m into skulls and crossbones and the color black,’ and that’s just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it’s hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content. Phil Elverum Read Quote
I grew up without religion, but my parents have always been somewhat mystical about nature: The mountain is looking at us, stuff like that. Phil Elverum Read Quote
I am commodifying my grief, to put it really bluntly. I accept it. And I try not to think about it. Phil Elverum Read Quote
