Fred Sprinkle Shares His Experience With The Microphones

Phil Elverum‘s music has always been deeply personal, which helps to explain why it inspires such personal responses. We’ve shared many long essays by fans of his work, from the achingly painful Mount Eerie albums A Crow Looked At Me and Now Only to last year’s epic, ruminative The Microphones in 2020. Here‘s an interesting one, from director/blogger Fred Sprinkle, who used to know Elverum’s brother. “If we need anything in 2020,” writes Sprinkle, “we need artists that help us navigate our uncertainty and fragility.”