Mount Eerie to release new double album, Sauna

Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum has been on something of a roll lately, first releasing two excellent companion albums in 2012 — Clear Moon and Ocean Roar — and then following them up with an electronics driven treatment of some of the same songs on last year’s surprisingly haunting Pre-Human Ideas. In 2015, he’s following up that set of robot balladry with a double album called Sauna, which he plans to debut first on tour this fall before releasing it via P.W. Elverum & Sun. A press release states that the album has themes of “vikings and zen and real life.” Yeah, that sounds about right.

Check out Mount Eerie’s tour dates below, where Elverum will debut the new material.

Mount Eerie tour dates:

8/30 Marshall, NC – Blannahassett Island, Transfigurations Festival
9/10 Dayton, WA – Mace Mead Works
9/11 Boise, ID – The Crux
9/12 Salt Lake City, UT – Diabolical Records
9/13 Denver, CO – Goldrush Music Fest
9/14 Lawrence, KS – Wonder Fair
9/15 Bloomington, IN – The Church
9/16 Youngstown, OH – Historian Recording Co.
9/17 Purchase, NY – SUNY Purchase
9/18 Easthampton, MA – the Flywheel
9/19 Biddeford, ME – The Oak & The Ax
9/20 Providence, RI – Columbus Theatre
9/21 Middletown, CT – Wesleyan University
9/22 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY – Bard College
9/23 Brooklyn, NY – The Trans-Pecos
9/24 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
9/25 Oberlin, OH – Dionysus Club
9/26 Gambier, OH – Kenyon College
9/27 Chicago, IL – Co-Prosperity Sphere
9/28 Minneapolis, MI – the Cedar Cultural Center
9/29 Minot, ND – Pangea House