Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie explained

Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie
Type:	Compilation
Artist:	Mount Eerie
Cover:	Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie (2005).jpg
Released:	December 6, 2005
Label:	P. W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. (ELV 003)
Producer:	Phil Elverum
Prev Title:	Singers
Prev Year:	2005
Next Title:	Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7
Next Year:	2007

Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie is an album by Mount Eerie written during Elverum's stay in Finnkonevika hyette, Norway in the winter of 2002/2003 and recorded in Anacortes in the winter of 2004. The only instrument present on the album is a Casiotone keyboard.^[1]

All songs from the album with the exception of "The Boom" were later re-recorded for the 2008 album Dawn with "I Love (It) So Much" being renamed as "A Show of Hands". Another version of "Wooly Mammoth's Mighty Absence" was also released on the Seven New Songs EP.

Track listing

All songs written by Phil Elverum.

1. "Cold Mountain"
2. "I Say 'No'"
3. "The Boom"
4. "The Dead of Night"
5. "Wooly Mammoth's Mighty Absence"
6. "Great Ghosts"
7. "Log in the Waves"
8. "I Love (It) So Much!"
9. "Goodbye Hope"
10. "Who?"
11. "See Me"

Critical reception

In a negative review for Cokemachineglow, Dom Sinacola wrote that "11 Old Songs is not very good. Seriously. It’s aimless and boring while still enamored with itself".^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mount Eerie 11 Old Songs of Mount Eerie. Exclaim.
2. Web site: Mount Eerie 11 Old Songs. Cokemachineglow. Sinacola. Dom. November 27, 2007. May 30, 2020.