$15

Do you suffer from Open Mindedness? We feel for you. For those afflicted with this condition we offer this special “Explorer’s Package” bargain deal. It’s 2 of our recent releases that aren’t by Mount Eerie: “It Never Was You” by Nicholas Krgovich (7” + download) and “California Lite” by Key Losers (LP + download). By buying this $15 discount package you save money on both the item costs and the shipping. Plus, the music is very good and the objects are HIGH quality, as usual. It’s worth it.

ELV029: It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water by the Microphones : LP+download

$17

First released in the year 2000 by K, this is the 2nd Microphones album and has been out of print on vinyl for many years. Now it is back and fancy. This is number 3 in our ongoing Microphones reissue series.

The release date for this is May 28th, so order it now and don’t be alarmed if it doesn’t arrive until then.

Here you can order a whole bunch of copies for the record store you work at.
Here you can order just the digital version of this album.

ELV028: Don’t Wake Me Up by the Microphones : LP+download

$17

This first official album by the Microphones was originally released in 1999 by K and has been out of print on vinyl for many years. Now finally it’s available again in this very satisfying heavy form. It’s the 2nd release in our ongoing Microphones reissue series.

Here you can order a whole bunch of copies for the record store you work at.
Here you can order just the digital version of this album.

ELV030: Song Islands by the Microphones : 2xLP+download

$21

This first vinyl appearance of the singles/rarities collection from 2002 kicks of the series of reissues of all 5 Microphones albums we’re putting out throughout 2013. These songs are islands, unrelated to any “real” albums, created between 1997 and 2002, mostly in/of Olympia, Wash., and collected on CD by K. There are some songs that are well known and some songs that are super weird moments in the studio, less well-known. A broad archipelago.

This version has been remastered by John Golden and all polished and made sturdy. It includes a new fold out explanatory poster sheet thing, a download card, heavy old-style gatefold jackets, and a foil stamped obi strip. It feels good in the hand. You are invited to purchase one or more.

Here you can order a whole bunch of copies for the record store you work at.
Here you can order just the digital version of this album.
Here you can buy the CD in our Bargain CD Store.

ELV027: Clear Moon/Ocean Roar (condensed versions) by Mount Eerie : 7”

$5

What is this? It is simple. Side A is all the songs from Clear Moon played at the same time on top of each other. Side B is all the songs from Ocean Roar played at the same time on top of each other. No further explanation necessary.

ELV026: Ocean Roar by Mount Eerie : LP+download

$17

Ocean Roar is part two in a pair of new Mount Eerie albums this year. It acts as a counterpoint to the soft synth walls and landscape pondering of Clear Moon, presenting the opposite of that album’s clear glints of awareness: a total wall of blue-grey oceanic fog, a half remembered dream of a trip through dense old growth hills to the gnarly winter ocean, in the middle of the night, decades ago. This album is the audio equivalent of the blanket of thick dark water vapor that covers the Pacific Northwest for most of the year, revealing only brief glimpses of illumination. Ocean Roar is perhaps more experimental than the average album. Calling these things “songs” only loosely applies. These are closer to studies in sound, attempts to alter the way the brain experiences its surroundings after being subjected to endless chords, repeating note flurries, stretched drones. It’s “psychedelic” in same way as seasickness or vertigo. Warmth and distortion, burning driftwood, 9 months of rain.

The packaging is pretty rad: blue foil stamped ink lettering, heavy tip-on jackets, conceptually consistent black vinyl, sweet download cards, full color lyric/photo booket, nice bag, cool sticker. The bar continues to be raised.

Here you can order just the digital version of this album.
Here you can order a whole bunch of copies for the record store you work at.

ELV025: Clear Moon by Mount Eerie : LP+download

$17

(Click the picture to see a display of what you’ll receive.)

Here’s some explanatory promotional text:
In this first of two new albums planned for release in 2012, Mount Eerie presents a monumental work of depth and maturity. These are songs about a quiet life in and around a small northwest town, usually buried in fog, and the unexpected moments of clarity that briefly flash through. Clear Moon is the resonant lone bell symbol, the glint in the water, the sudden breath.

After all the world-touring that followed the release of Wind’s Poem, Phil Elverum has spent 2 years establishing a new recording studio, “the Unknown”, in an old de-sanctified church in Anacortes, Washington. These 2 new albums, Clear Moon and Ocean Roar (due in September), are the first Mount Eerie recordings to be released from the new old space. You can hear the giant wooden cathedral room in these songs. Vast echo, resonating gongs, impenetrable walls of thickness, and always a voice cutting through the fog, moon-like.

The sound is not lo-fi as it is sometimes called. It’s also not hi-fi. These are just crazy recordings, bigger and deeper than any real- life fjord. It’s 100% analog, and it is a sound that can only come from 15 months of studio solitude, crushing tape, riding waves of fake strings, finding new angles on “intensity”. The music of Popol Vuh was inspirational, as well as explorers from black metal such as Menace Ruine, Nadja, and others. Contemporaries in theme can be found in the heavy sacred regionalism of Olympia’s Wolves In The Throne Room. Ultimately, this is music on its own island, unlike anything else; a break in the clouds and a view of a hidden new landscape.

Here is a playlist of videos/music that perhaps informed these recordings, maybe.
Here you can order just the digital version of this album.
Here you can order a whole bunch of copies for the record store you work at.

NOTE: THE DOWNLOAD LINK IS ON A PIECE OF PAPER INSIDE THE RECORD. YOU WON’T RECEIVE IT INSTANTLY. IF YOU CAN’T WAIT YOU CAN STREAM OR DOWNLOAD CLEAR MOON HERE.

EPCD066/7: Clear Moon/Ocean Roar by Mount Eerie : 2xCD Japanese import

$28

From 7 e.p. in Japan comes the only CD release in the world of either of these albums. Packaged in a super elegant mini-gatefold LP style (like the Wind’s Poem CDs), including a beautiful lyric booklet with pictures and bilingual lyrics. 2 CDs in their own careful inner sleeves. Obi strip. The whole fancy Japanese packaging luxury celebration.

Warning: we don’t have very many copies of these.

GRAVE073: World Heaves b/w Engel Der Luft (Popol Vuh) (version) 7”+download by Mount Eerie

$9.50

This is part of Graveface Records’ new charity subscription series, with many different artists releasing various types of singles to benefit various charities. This Mount Eerie 7” is for the benefit of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands, an essential organization that protects and educates about the sacred and magical forests around Anacortes, Washington. (A cause that might not be relevant to everyone looking at this website but that is completely central to everything we are trying to do with this Mount Eerie music project.)

Hurry and get a rare subscription to the entire series while you still can here.

silkscreened Mount Eerie summer 2012 NW tour POSTER

$15

This is a limited edition hand silkscreened full color poster for the Pacific Northwest tour by Mount Eerie in June 2012. They were made by Andrew Crawshaw of Broken Press in Seattle. 18” x 24” is the size. They’ll come shipped rolled in a tube.

$4.75

ELV014: MOUNT EERIE pts. 6 & 7 : book/10” (2nd version)

$60

132 huge pages, plus a 3 panel fold-out, of natural light in the natural world, distorted and brought to life by ambient moonlight, expired film, antique cameras, and long night exposures. The photos are the visual counterpart to pretty much the entire catalog of the Microphones and Mount Eerie, spanning almost a decade. Bound within the pristine white silver foil-stamped hardcover is the new Mount Eerie EP, featuring 4 long songs: “Known World”, “Unknown World”, “Blue Light on the Floor” and “Mount Eerie Revealed”. This vinyl only release is intended to be a sequel to “Mount Eerie” by the Microphones (K records, 2003), picking up where that ambiguous myth left off and returning to firm ground to wander into the backyard in the middle of the night.

This “2nd version” is the same book as the 1st version, but with a different image on the picture disc vinyl, and also a different dust jacket: the double sided poster for sale above, but folded and wrapped around the book. It looks good.

Do you have a copy and you want to know what the photos are of? There is a supplement page now for book owners. It is here.

ELV022: Song Islands vol. 2 (2xLP+download) by Mount Eerie

$21

SONG ISLANDS vol. 2 is the 2nd collection of scattered, isolated non-album tracks (get it? “islands”?), vol. 1 having been released by K records in 2002 under the “Microphones” name.

These songs span from long ago (Where Is My Tarp? from 2002, recorded during the Microphones’ perpetual occupation of Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia) to recent out-takes from 2009’s Wind’s Poem (Lost Wisdom and (wind lyrics), explorations into the mysteries of black metal) and all kinds of wildly divergent places in between. Raw poems barely accompanied on acoustic guitar, expanses of wooden percussion, distorted punk instructionals, hundreds of voices singing, an attempt at smooth jazz, the lowest note on a questionable piano in a big empty room.

Many of these songs have never been released before, and the rest have only been released into ultra-obscurity on limited 7” singles and forgotten compilations, finally compiled here for the first time onto 2 white vinyl LPs (with free download!), wrapped in a heavy gatefold jacket, 18 photos from the ongoing “piles series”, with a 32 page booklet of details, all enfolded in a fancy letterpressed bookband. Every song was re-mixed and then remastered by the illustrious John Golden. As always, P.W. Elverum & Sun maintains the highest standards of manufacturing quality. This is worth owning.

ELV020: Wind’s Poem (2xLP) by Mount Eerie

$19

Wind’s Poem is the 3rd “official” album by Mount Eerie, the third in the continuum of semi-narrative explorations on the themes of erosion and mortality. It is the best record ever made by Mount Eerie or any related projects.

Double CLEAR vinyl, incredible heavy gatefold jackets with bronze foil stamping, 36 inch double sided lyrics poster, everything manufactured to the highest standards of quality.

MUSIC VIDEO

twelve songs / 54:45 total time

ELV020: Wind’s Poem (CD) by Mount Eerie

NOW CHEAPER: $12

Wind’s Poem is the 3rd “official” album by Mount Eerie, the third in the continuum of semi-narrative explorations on the themes of erosion and mortality. It is the best record ever made by Mount Eerie or any related projects.

Special heavy gatefold “mini-LP” CD jackets with bronze foil stamping, 36 inch double sided lyrics poster, everything manufactured to the highest standards of quality.

(same track listing as the LP)

ELV019: Lost Wisdom (LP)
by Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire

$12

10 songs recorded quickly and quietly during a surprise visit by Julie Doiron, keeper of the world’s greatest and saddest voice, and Fred Squire, hidden guitarist of the floating riff, in a small wooden room in Anacortes, Washington before they returned home to eastern Canada. Songs with the expression of the face of a baby in a burning world, in the swirling dust. They hang on a theme of impermanence and destroying forces. The river is revealed to be going right through the house, the river of inevitable chaos, sorrow and love.

Julie Doiron is a legitimate music legend. Not only are her solo albums the greatest but she is also in the band Eric’s Trip. This is a big deal. Fred Squire is called “hidden” here because he plays so dramatic gently and has primarily lived in extremely remote Canadian outposts. His songs are called Calm Down, It’s Monday. Look it up.

The LP version of this comes with a 24 × 36 inch double sided poster with all the lyrics and a painting and a photo.

ELV019: Lost Wisdom (CD) by Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire

$10

Same music but on CD. It comes in a pretty fancy sleeve. Have you seen those “mini-LP replica” sleeves that come from Japan? It’s one of those. Printed in Japan (world’s best printers) and no plastic in the construction. It’s a nice sturdy miniature disc object.

Dawn by Phil Elverum (book+CD)

$25

What is this? “Winter Journal”? CD? Pictures? What?
Here for sale is a potentially boring, potentially illuminating journal from a winter spent alone in a remote Norwegian cabin in 2002/2003, along with a CD of the songs written during that time and some pictures and drawings. The idea is that the journal writing is the “raw source material” that the songs were later distilled from. Reading it in journal-form perhaps recreates the slow pace of life and the swirl of thoughts that allowed the birth of such songs. Also: jokes, observations on cold nature, literature, surrealism, “home”, perception, etc. You might find it interesting.
It is a pretty nice object too: a hardcover book bound in synthetic birch wood. It looks like the piece of wood it is. (Buenaventura Press)

epcd027: NO FLASHLIGHT (Japanese import) by Mount Eerie : CD

$16

This first “real” album by Mount Eerie is currently only physically available in the form of this Japanese import CD which also features 4 bonus tracks. Originally released in the fall of 2005, it is made of mostly acoustic sounds, cardboard bass drum thumps, water bottle hand drums, and small wooden rooms. It features such “hits” as “No Flashlight”, “How?”, “the Air In The Morning”, and “No Flashlight”. An LP repress is unlikely in the foreseeable future so use your chance now to get this nice digipak Japanese CD version.

OR: CHEAP DOWNLOAD HERE

ELV024: It Never Was You (7”+download) by Nicholas Krgovich

$4.50

side A: “It Never Was You”
side B: “It Never Was You (a cappella)”
This song is a hit! It was stuck in everyone’s heads here at the warehouse for literally 6 months so we had to insist on releasing it. We will be distributing the single to all the jukeboxes across the country and soon it will be everywhere, this strange new/old music singing of mistaken identity, a moment on the sidewalk, checking the look in the reflective sign on the luxury store facade.

ELV023: California Lite LP+download by Key Losers

$15

Key Losers is a band based in Portland, Oregon, whose songwriter, singer, guitarist, and only constant member is Katy Davidson. Davidson once led the band Dear Nora, which disbanded in 2008. California Lite is Key Losers’ first official full-length album, though Key Losers did release a 9-song “mini-album” called Adjust on States Rights Records in early 2010. Key Losers is a band that may be characterized by its concept-driven lyrics and melody-driven music.

Davidson recruited an all-star band to perform as Key Losers for this album. This band should be referred to as “Key Losers Black Crow Session Band” (in alphabetical order): Karl Blau (K Records) – saxophone / Greg Campanile (Total Noise) – percussion / Andrew Dorsett (LAKE / K Records) – bass and vocals / Tom Filardo (Total Noise) – lead guitar and vocals / Nick Krgovich (No Kids / Tomlab) – keyboards and vocals / Eli Moore (LAKE / K Records) – vocals / Davidson played rhythm guitar and sang lead vocals.
Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) engineered this album in Anacortes, Washington, during late 2010 and early 2011 on all analog equipment, almost completely live, with only minimal overdubbing.

Key Losers Black Crow Session Band will be honored if listeners experience a blend of soft rock, smooth jazz, classic rock, pop, folk, art rock, and noise in this music, and will be flattered by comparisons to a number of acts ranging from Santana to Sade to Joni Mitchell to Stevie Wonder to Julee Cruise to Steely Dan to Steve Reich to Spin Doctors.

MORE: Katy’s mini-essay
AND: OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

ELV011: WELCOME NOWHERE by THANKSGIVING : PARTIAL VERSION

$10

“Welcome Nowhere” by Thanksgiving was our first release, “ELV000”, way back in 2004. It sold out, and in 2008 we decided to re-release it and include all the other amazing songs from the sessions that didn’t fit onto the first version. Now the reissue is sold out. Here now for sale are the last remainders of the materials from the reissue, being offered basically at cost.

This “partial version” doesn’t come with the 1st record, the actual album “Welcome Nowhere”, although you do get it on the enclosed CD (which also includes the bonus materials). Here’s what you get:

• the 2nd record, tie dyed sludge colored vinyl, containing the famous rare “Pregnancy Series” ep released by States Rights Records, on vinyl for the first time, and Side 4 is unheard songs of the era, including “Waterfalls”.
• everything on CD
• fancy jacket with beautiful pictures
  

We just have 50 of these so don’t wait! After this they’re gone forever.

KLP185: ADRIAN ORANGE AND HER BAND (LP)

$13

There are quite a few recordings out there of “Thanksgiving” and “Adrian Orange” and other various names. We (me, Phil Elverum, and Adrian) recorded some together and he recorded some elsewhere. Of those we recorded together, this album that K released called “Adrian Orange & Her Band” is my favorite. I am selling it here because I honestly feel it is crucial for every collection and non-collection. These are essential, true, cutting songs that need to be heard. It is for sale in this store because I helped make it (recording) but also because I want more people to hear it and have it. I guess that’s what being a fan is.

Here are the words to “Fire Dream”, from this album:
I dreamed that a fire from our bed spread all through town / But in the morning the house still was cold / A magnificent dream, nonetheless revelatory / So suddenly met by tomorrow’s sunny window / No breakfast, no time, off to town, no delay / We need the fire there to warm up our sad bones / If we greet them with warmth, they may grant us welcome / Though each of us must walk all next to our lonesome / Trees by the roadside gravely loom and feign to hide / New buildings, eye-catching like bad food packaging / In their parking lots, cans and bottles echo soft / And shiny paint jobs rest on the mid-price cars / So much depends on each separate perception / Each soul’s made the god of a separate creation / All the modern masters don’t know the power they hold / Even they must be tricked, and think they walk alone / Giving all their best and being uncompensated, / Lamenting that they only wished to belong fucking enslaved / My god, what has become of the world we could share? / This world of ours that’s now yours and mine / Once again in the west we watch the sun setting / My heart went with it then and night fell on what’s left of me.

TAUS002: Karl & Genevieve 7”

$5

In 2005, Karl Blau (known under his own name) and Geneviève Castrée (of Woelv then and of Ô Paon now) joined forces to write scientific and hallucinated songs in the garage behind Karl’s house. At first the idea was to make a full album, but with their busy schedules (records, books, exhibitions and tours) they only managed to meet up for three songs. Inspired by a taste for adventure, the month of August and the slow summer days of Anacortes, Karl and Geneviève remind us a little bit of the moods of Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem when they were young. The sharing of vocals parts is exciting, Karls’ sung French lyrics are a real jewel.

Karl & Geneviève is a limited edition seven inch featuring a homemade letterpressed jacket and a full color insert.

TAUS003: “Courses” by Ô Paon : LP

$14

Un automne, deux hivers et un été, c’est le temps qu’il aura fallu à Geneviève Castrée pour changer d’identité musicale en passant de Woelv à Ô Paon. Deux ans de gestation et quatre passages en studio à l’Hotel2Tango de Montréal pour préparer Courses. Ce nouvel opus annonce d’emblée sa différence avec les précédents albums de Geneviève, le ciel y est lourd et l’univers s’est assombri. Si les paroles sont plus graves, c’est qu’elle explore les zones d’ombre de notre société : les grandes friches industrielles, l’appât du gain, l’absurdité du pouvoir, la violence, la solitude. Savamment orchestré par Thierry Amar (Silver Mt Zion, Black Ox Orkestar, Godspeed You! Black Emperor), qui a su non seulement ajouter une texture particulière aux chansons, mais qui s’est aussi fait le traducteur de certaines idées, Courses est un album monté en boucles, riche en répétitions vocales et musicales qui nous entraînent inexorablement là où il veut nous mener, au regard que Geneviève porte sur cette déchéance. Et toute la force de l’album est dans ce regard qui saisit l’instant (« Je t’ai vue seule et abandonnée ») sans cynisme ni jugement. La tristesse contemple la tristesse. La vie est une course perdue d’avance, semble nous dire Geneviève, mais ne pariez pas sur mon cheval, il est trop fatigué. Et quand par moments la colère l’emporte, les musiciens (Nadia Moss, Sophie Trudeau, Jonah Fortune, Julie Houle et David Payant) unissent leurs forces pour faire lever la tempête. Humains et chevaux partent alors dans un galop effréné et chaotique, sans savoir où ils vont et sans plus se soucier des obstacles.

Comme d’habitude, la pochette est finement illustrée par Geneviève elle-même.

Personnel:
Geneviève Castrée: chant, guitares.
Thierry Amar: ingénieur du son, producteur, basse sur 1, contrebasse sur 4.
Nadia Moss: orgue sur 2 et 5, piano sur 8.
Sophie Trudeau: violon sur 1, 6 et 8.
Jonah Fortune: batterie sur 1 et 2.
Julie Houle: tuba sur 6.
David Payant: batterie sur 4.

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One autumn, two winters and one summer. That is how much time it took for Geneviève Castrée to change her musical identity from “Woelv” to “Ô Paon”. Two years of gestation and four visits to Montréal’s Hotel2Tango recording studio. Courses announces from the start its difference from previous records by Geneviève. The sky is heavy and the universe got darker. The lyrics are more solemn, exploring the shadowy parts of our society: wastelands, greed, the absurdity of power, violence, loneliness. Thierry Amar (Silver Mt. Zion, Black Ox Orkestar, Godspeed You! Black Emperor) expertly arranges the recordings, adding a particular texture to the songs and even playing the role of translator for certain ideas. Courses is a record built on loops, rich with vocal and musical repetitions leading us inexorably where it wants to: what Geneviève sees as this decline unfolds. She captures the moment without cynicism or judgement (« Je t’ai vue seule et abandonnée » – I saw you alone and abandoned). Sadness contemplates sadness. Geneviève seems to tell us that life is a race already lost, and wonders what we are running after, “But don’t bet on my horse, he is too tired.”. Occasionally anger takes over and the musicians (Nadia Moss, Sophie Trudeau, Jonah Fortune, Julie Houle et David Payant) unite and bring their power to raise a storm. Humans and horses speed in chaos, not knowing where they are going and not caring about obstacles.

As usual, the cover is carefully drawn by Geneviève herself and English translations are included on the lyric sheet.

Personnel:
Geneviève Castrée: voice, guitars.
Thierry Amar: engineer, producer, bass on 1, contrabass on 4.
Nadia Moss: organ on 2 and 5, piano on 8.
Sophie Trudeau: violin on 1, 6 and 8.
Jonah Fortune: drums on 1 and 2.
Julie Houle: tuba on 6.
David Payant: drums on 4.

TAUS003: “Courses” by Ô Paon : CD

$10

TAUS001: Ô Paon e.p. : 7”

$5

Two songs about masks, spring deaths, and rebirths.
This is the first release by Ô Paon on the new record label of the same name. We are merely distributing it here.

KLP172: “Tout Seul Dans La Forêt En Plein Jour, Avez-Vous Peur?” by Woelv : 60 page book with LP

$27

(“Alone In The Forest In The Middle Of The Day, Are You Scared?”)
This was released in Dec. 2007 by K but has gone CRIMINALLY under-noticed. For this reason we are lowering the price and giving you some examples of the incredible artwork that fills the 60 page book that accompanies the record. Click these pictures to look closer.:


Geneviève Castrée is the brilliant artist/musician behind this work and also that of Ô Paon. This book/record is an exploration of intense conflict and the beauty and grace that shines through; dramatic music sung in French with lyrics translated into SO MANY different languages throughout the book.

ELV009 (vinyl): “GRIS” by Woelv : 10”

$11

We just got some more of these fine 10 inches back in stock. Get one before they’re really all the way gone.
Geneviève made these 4 long songs in preparation for a tour of Japan. They turned out to be too good for just a tour thing so we released it. Drones and mind bends. Sung in French. White vinyl.

ELV009 (C.D.): “GRIS” by Woelv : CD

$9

Geneviève made these 4 long songs in preparation for a tour of Japan. They turned out to be too good for just a tour thing so we released it. They are an attempt at “prog rock” she says. Drones and mind bends. Comes with a booklet of drawings and some string. Sung in French.

MAR047 (LP): “the Watery Graves of Portland and Geneviève” : LP (released by Marriage)

$11

A collaboration between The Watery Graves of Portland (Marriage dudes) and Geneviève. It is very good. Here is a sample.

MAR047 (CD): “the Watery Graves of Portland and Geneviève” : CD (released by Marriage)

$9

A collaboration between The Watery Graves of Portland (Marriage dudes) and Geneviève. It is very good. Here is a sample.

Croatian Fishing Families of Anacortes (book) by Bret Lunsford

$24

On a windy shore lined with log booms, smokestacks, salmon boats, and waterfront shacks, the vitality of Anacortes’ cannery row is brought to life – salted down, fermented and distilled in Old Country style. Follow a rocky island path over rough plank docks to a place where…
★ A thousand fishermen come to port for weekend pavement dances
★ Kids stomp grapes of Prohibition wine
★ Stores close and football practice is cancelled while the whole town cans salmon

Spanning a hundred years of Puget Sound maritime history, Croatian Fishing Families of Anacortes fills an important gap in the northwest bookshelf. 192 pages, 193 vintage photographs and numerous collected oral histories create a fully detailed portrait of everyday life in a small island community in a unique time and place.

WHY IS THIS BOOK FOR SALE HERE?
1.- Because it was designed by me, Phil Elverum, runner of this P.W. Elverum & Sun store, and I am very proud of how it looks. Heavy beautiful hardcover binding, full printed cover wrap, copper foil stamping on cover and spine, richly printed amazing old photos, classy book band, made in Iceland. It gets an A+.
2.- Because P.W. Elverum & Sun is a company that is deeply rooted in Anacortes, Washington, having existed here for over 200 years, and we are proud to be able to share the weird and interesting history of this center of the universe in such a beautifully assembled package.
3.- Because Bret Lunsford, the author/compiler, is the man behind D+ whose record we have released. This is his new release.

“Anacortes” by Bret Lunsford : 128 page book

$22

Bret Lunsford (of D+, Beat Happening, What The Heck fest and much much more) has assembled this beautiful collection of over 200 historical photos from Anacortes, our treasured home town, and wrote the informative captions. The book is published by Arcadia Publishing, the people who do excellent local history books nationwide. The photos are really amazing. They come primarily from the deep collection at the Anacortes Museum and have a vague focus on the odd things in Anacortes history that make the place so unique (odd things that continue today in things like What The Heck? fest and the various weird characters that are drawn here). early salmon fishing and canning, community events, parades, work, etc. an excellent book.