The Microphones - "Microphones in 2020" | Album Review

Last year, after fifteen years operating under the name of Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum slipped into an old form: as he performed in the summer of 2019 as The Microphones he started to wonder what it even meant to step back into a past identity. What - if anything - distinguished Elverum as he played that day from the artist who had gone by a different name days, weeks before? So here we are: Elverum’s decision was to release Microphones In 2020, an album composed of one track lasting almost 45 minutes, a deep foray into his past transformations and the never-ending pursuit of meaning in life.