Its so cathartic the way that all this music has gotten me to appreciate and explore forests and bogs and rocks on the beach and fallen over trees and nature as this coalescence of stuff, in a way i forgot to once i grew up and moved to a city. This fractured, singular, raw world.
I'm 99% sure that this song and its title are inspired by the essay "Decolonization is not a metaphor" by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. It's a rather short and very interesting read for anybody who cares. In Conjunction I also recommend reading "Slavery is a metaphor: A Critical Commentary on Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s 'Decolonization is Not a Metaphor'" by Tapji Garba and Sara-Maria Sorentino
I’m only a quarter native, but I have firsthand felt the effects of my culture being stolen away from me both by force and public shaming, and I could not thank you enough for speaking out for the original inhabitants of this land. Love ya Phil
I feel this. I grew up having people constantly telling me "No you're just white" when I grew up with this. My great grandfather was a registered tribe member, I went to powwows as a kid, my house is filled with it. But because I grew up so far from where we're from I don't even know if I count as native at this point.
@@Rainin90utsideSeason 3 shows it decaying and dying. Much of it takes place in Las Vegas and South Dakota, with its final episode mostly in the suburban hell of present-day Odessa, Texas. It paints a decidedly negative view of these places. And the scenes that are set back in Twin Peaks show the town as mostly sad and troubled. It’s a much more realistic and nuanced show than the original run, at least in my opinion.
Really love this one. Made me go back and really appreciate what you’re doing with this album so far. I already loved the singles, but this new one really has me excited.
ahh..just another classic MAMU morning...scannin with the flashlight for coogz n wild mntn folk. Such relief when those sun rays cut through that thick ol fog. KEERS!
This song is great. Phil, you're an inspiration to me and my music, thank you. I can't wait for this album, I've had it pre-ordered, I'm so unrightfully excited. I know you don't know me, and I know I don't know you, but I know you're music, it means everything to me. 🫂
Thank you for all the terrifying and holdable, touchable realness that your music has awoken me to over the years Phil, sending love to you and peace in your meditations
When I was in Costco today I came across a display of $9000 vibrating recliners that looked like they could orbit in space. I randomly said to another flabberghasted onlooker, "capitlism is definitely gasping its last wicked breath, yah?" She said Yah!
Says the uncontributing clone who's drowning in a sea of the same vapid blonde stepford influencers. Get over yourself and try caring about something real and try to not just be an ouroboros with your head up your ass eating your own shit.
As if "the natives" weren't warring tribes As if the tree roots and branches themselves aren't fighting other trees for their territory Competition and Conflict are as old as life This is Phil "I reject Nature"
As if you needed to conquer, there is enough for every one on this planet without needing to take more then what you actually need to live, if your idea of life is taking whats not yours because someone else will do it if you don't then you do you do you. Doing something because some other people would do it anyway is pathetic. I shall come take what is yours because hey according to your philosophy that is human nature but then again you probably would be the first to cry out and complain ! Your tree analogy is quite ridiculous, have you ever seen trees kill each other ?
@coshyno yes, trees compete for territory, soil and access to sunlight for example, and those trees that survive do so at the expense of trees that don't. This natural process does not require agency, that's my point. This process is also occuring at time rates quite different from human time rates. We think trees are "peacefully co-existing man ✌️" because they move and grow and compete with one another at rates much slower than us. As far as intra- human competition, I'm not just saying "might is right". I'm all for cooperation and fair trade. My problem is with the 'noble savage' trope that lays all the guilt of history on Western civilization. It's not true and is just political ideology. It's also a real regression in Phil's body of work that he's adopted.
now is history. the world and society has always operated on mass exploitation justifying it with many things including racism and religion. history is not what has happened but what is happening and what will happen. everything is fluid and non linear
@@dearthunderstorm4062 You just lack the imagination to understand how someone could know the history of the New World and take no issue whatsoever with it not belonging to its oldest inhabitants.
most hostile phil elverum comment section of all time
Its so cathartic the way that all this music has gotten me to appreciate and explore forests and bogs and rocks on the beach and fallen over trees and nature as this coalescence of stuff, in a way i forgot to once i grew up and moved to a city. This fractured, singular, raw world.
I welcome Political Phil
I'm 99% sure that this song and its title are inspired by the essay "Decolonization is not a metaphor" by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. It's a rather short and very interesting read for anybody who cares.
In Conjunction I also recommend reading "Slavery is a metaphor: A Critical Commentary on Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s 'Decolonization is Not a Metaphor'" by Tapji Garba and Sara-Maria Sorentino
it is! he mentions it on his substack
@@phoebeandromeda Oh neat, ty for confirming!
Thanks for the pointers!
I’m only a quarter native, but I have firsthand felt the effects of my culture being stolen away from me both by force and public shaming, and I could not thank you enough for speaking out for the original inhabitants of this land. Love ya Phil
I feel this. I grew up having people constantly telling me "No you're just white" when I grew up with this. My great grandfather was a registered tribe member, I went to powwows as a kid, my house is filled with it. But because I grew up so far from where we're from I don't even know if I count as native at this point.
So refreshing to hear new Mount Eerie songs again. Love you Phil!
Currently rewatching Twin Peaks and the non-metaphorical (de)colonization makes so much sense. Eerie presence that we do ignore and haunt our present
Lynch loved 50's and 60's America. Twin Peaks basically echoes that the America he loved still resides in small towns.
@@Rainin90utsideSeason 3 shows it decaying and dying. Much of it takes place in Las Vegas and South Dakota, with its final episode mostly in the suburban hell of present-day Odessa, Texas. It paints a decidedly negative view of these places. And the scenes that are set back in Twin Peaks show the town as mostly sad and troubled. It’s a much more realistic and nuanced show than the original run, at least in my opinion.
This is so Twin Peaks I love it
Really love this one. Made me go back and really appreciate what you’re doing with this album so far. I already loved the singles, but this new one really has me excited.
Badass. It’s really cool to hear such direct advocation for this stuff in a psych rock song
ahh..just another classic MAMU morning...scannin with the flashlight for coogz n wild mntn folk. Such relief when those sun rays cut through that thick ol fog. KEERS!
love the organ. this track reminds me of the "Ocean roar" album
Agreed, I loved that record
Phil, I am grateful for all that you do. Thank you!
beneath the one sky let this old world shatter
Artful as always Phil
This song is great. Phil, you're an inspiration to me and my music, thank you. I can't wait for this album, I've had it pre-ordered, I'm so unrightfully excited. I know you don't know me, and I know I don't know you, but I know you're music, it means everything to me. 🫂
Wow. I feel this, I’ve felt this. Let the world know.
mf surely remembered his flashlight this time, let’s go!
Thank you for all the terrifying and holdable, touchable realness that your music has awoken me to over the years Phil, sending love to you and peace in your meditations
let this old world shatter
Let this old world shatter🔥
They tried to bury us //
But they didn’t know we were seeds
Stereolab in form and essense
I am really excited for this album
Thanks Phil. Very cool
from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
I'd say we are so back, but the truth is we never really left
What a great song and such a fitting music video
Incredible. 💖
When I was in Costco today I came across a display of $9000 vibrating recliners that looked like they could orbit in space. I randomly said to another flabberghasted onlooker, "capitlism is definitely gasping its last wicked breath, yah?" She said Yah!
Absolutely phenomenal
Thank you for saying what needs to be said
this fucking rules
Great title
Love it
based
This is my Musical Happy Place.
Let's Bring Nature Back.
This is amazing
incredible how you always manage to outdo yourself, phil!!!
Mogwai meets phil and they do a boss track
The only thing I have to say is thank you ❤
Nice
One of Phil’s most fatherly songs
you sound the same, happy to hear you again
Holy Shit
Amazing but way tooooo short. I want more more more
Bro accidentally (?) invented Stereolab
def not accidently. i think he talks about stereolab in microphones in 2020
cool
Free Palestine
they just wanted to dance little bro
@@isaac_759 ?
❤️
Stereolab vibes.
O maioral
S.J.W. Elverum & Sun
lmao considering he put in his newsletter that he read Marx, I'd wager Comrade Elverum is more fitting
@@InsulindianPhasmid2214 this song is profoundly un-Marxian/Hegelian. There isn't a way backwards through history.
soyjakking at the land acknowledgement in the mount eerie show
Says the uncontributing clone who's drowning in a sea of the same vapid blonde stepford influencers. Get over yourself and try caring about something real and try to not just be an ouroboros with your head up your ass eating your own shit.
I hope you taste freedom in your life
touch grass 🙂
As if "the natives" weren't warring tribes
As if the tree roots and branches themselves aren't fighting other trees for their territory
Competition and Conflict are as old as life
This is Phil "I reject Nature"
As if you needed to conquer, there is enough for every one on this planet without needing to take more then what you actually need to live, if your idea of life is taking whats not yours because someone else will do it if you don't then you do you do you. Doing something because some other people would do it anyway is pathetic. I shall come take what is yours because hey according to your philosophy that is human nature but then again you probably would be the first to cry out and complain ! Your tree analogy is quite ridiculous, have you ever seen trees kill each other ?
@coshyno yes, trees compete for territory, soil and access to sunlight for example, and those trees that survive do so at the expense of trees that don't. This natural process does not require agency, that's my point. This process is also occuring at time rates quite different from human time rates. We think trees are "peacefully co-existing man ✌️" because they move and grow and compete with one another at rates much slower than us.
As far as intra- human competition, I'm not just saying "might is right". I'm all for cooperation and fair trade. My problem is with the 'noble savage' trope that lays all the guilt of history on Western civilization. It's not true and is just political ideology. It's also a real regression in Phil's body of work that he's adopted.
16 year old girl who knows absolutely nothing about history but yaps anyway tier lyrics.
but it's you who knows so little about history to ignore its vast horrors and the widespread lies that cover it up
now is history. the world and society has always operated on mass exploitation justifying it with many things including racism and religion. history is not what has happened but what is happening and what will happen. everything is fluid and non linear
@@dearthunderstorm4062 You just lack the imagination to understand how someone could know the history of the New World and take no issue whatsoever with it not belonging to its oldest inhabitants.
@@Rainin90utside right so you’re pro colonialism. Let’s be clear. You know and you’re in favor of it.
@@Rainin90utside there is no justification for genocide
Going out on a limb here, but I’m guessing Phil wasn’t as thrilled by the election results as I was. 😂😂
Shallow moral vanity
what are you talking about?