It’s kind of cool to see what happens when someone who’s known for doing one thing really well just up and decides to turn that one thing on its head. Enter: Black Wooden Ceiling Opening by Mount Eerie. Phil Elverum is great at making meandering, haunting, beautiful music which occasionally dips into that whole a-little-too-cryptic-and-obtuse-to-be-truly-enjoyable-by-anyone-other-than-Phil-Elverum territory.

With all that said his newest record, Black Wooden is an awesome lofi-folk-metal (kinda) concoction in which Elverum reinvents his songs into the made-up genre of Black Wooden, which is in turn a reinvention of Black Metal – awww, there’s that cryptic and obtuse Elverum we know and love.

This record is like Christmas morning: I ordered it from Elverum himself via his label P.W. Elverum & Sun, ltd. and it arrived promptly, hand-addressed by the man himself (you can tell, trust me). The package contained the six track 10″ record on pretty pretty white vinyl as well as a CD version of the album with an additional eleven live tracks, plus the packaging of the record which unfolds into two beautiful posters. And it’s good! It’s warm and it’s dark and it’s Mount Eerie. And I love Mount Eerie. Marry me, Santa Elverum.