On 12 July 2023, Mount Eerie was a guest on Plastic Language. Mount Eerie has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 13 episodes and was first played on 2 March 2014.

Mount Eerie represents the latest evolution of Phil Elverum's musical vision. Formerly known as The Microphones, Elverum began Mount Eerie in 2003, maintaining his previous project's subtle, lo-fi, and lyrically dense fuzz-folk aesthetic.

Elverum explained this change in an 2003 interview with Discorder, asserting that "Mount Eerie is a new project. The Microphones was completed, or at least at a good stopping point. I did it because I…