Mount Eerie Sauna

"Mount Eerie, aka Phil Elverum, has announced a new album, the follow up to last year's Pre-Human Ideas. It's called Sauna, and it'll be out in 2015 via his P.W. Elverum & Sun label. He'll debut "extremely stripped-down" versions of the songs at a forthcoming tour, which kicks off in September. You can check out the schedule below.

According to a press release, the theme of the album is "vikings and zen and real life." It was recorded over 15 months in Anacortes, Washington.

Mount Eerie:

08-30 Marshall, NC - Blannahassett Island, Transfigurations Festival

09-10 Dayton, WA - Mace Mead Works

09-11 Boise, ID - The Crux

09-12 Salt Lake City, UT - Diabolical Records

09-13 Denver, CO - Goldrush Music Fest

09-14 Lawrence, KS - Wonder Fair

09-15 Bloomington, IN - The Church

09-16 Youngstown, OH - Historian Recording Co.

09-17 Purchase, NY - SUNY Purchase

09-18 Easthampton, MA - the Flywheel

09-19 Biddeford, ME - The Oak & The Ax

09-20 Providence, RI - Columbus Theatre

09-21 Middletown, CT - Wesleyan University

09-22 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - Bard College

09-23 Brooklyn, NY - The Trans-Pecos *

09-24 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge *

09-25 Oberlin, OH - Dionysus Club

09-26 Gambier, OH - Kenyon College

09-27 Chicago, IL - Co-Prosperity Sphere

09-28 Minneapolis, MI - the Cedar Cultural Center

09-29 Minot, ND - Pangea House

* with Mecca Normal "

- Jeremy Gordon, Pitchfork

1 Sauna
2 Turmoil
3 Dragon
4 Emptiness
5 (something)
6 Boat
7 Planets
8 Pumpkin
9 Spring
10 Books
11 This
12 Youth