Re-issued & Re-mastered with additional songs and materials. Limited to 2,000 LP copies.

While “Lo-Fi” as a sub-genre has quietly dissipated into the great tape hiss of the ether, the Microphones continue to boldly expand and expound upon the possibilities of analog recording…both at home AND in a studio. The Glow Pt. 2, the third full length album by the Microphones for K and fifth overall, is a sprawling 67-minute masterwork, a wonder of songwriting and alchemical engineering, certain to overtake last year’s acclaimed It Was Hot,We Stayed in the Water (KLP116) and earn Microphones the undisputed title of experimental pop’s Most Valuable Player.

Phil Elvrum, the man behind the Microphones’ mask, continues to inspire awe with this genre-imploding album. The Glow Pt. 2 is the complete package: impeccable songwriting laden with hooks, a widely varied palette of instrumentation, potent lyrical paintings, and interspersed sound tweaks which serve to lace everything together. Adopting the title from a song off of It Was Hot…, the theme of fire (all Microphones albums operate under a predominant theme), referred to as “The Glow”, stitches it’s way subtly throughout the record. Trusty nylon-stringed acoustic guitar in tow, a journey in sound begins, treading across psychedelic landscapes and peering across hazy vistas offering panoramic views of intimate strummings, lilting harmonies, otherworldly cadences, overdriven amplifiers, and confounding sound experimentations. Humble and delicate pop songs bump up against heroic yearnings and in-the-red rockers, bookmarked between instrumental interludes. Horns, steel drums, and piano are new additions to the already advanced Microphones arsenal. And what is that subtle tone which pops up mysteriously between songs? Merely a recording of a tugboat, which actually manages to burrow its’ way through the fabric of each of the songs on the entire album, subconsciously sewing the music together via a common sound element. Astounding.

Comparisons to the Elephant 6 collective firmly aside, The Glow Pt. 2 transcends psyche-pop and lo-fi tags to blossom as the most actualized and daring album of the Microphones’ young career.

1. I Want Wind to Blow
2. the Glow Pt. 2
3. the Moon
4. Headless Horsemen
5. My Roots are Strong and Deep
6. instrumental
7. the Mansion
8. (something)
9. (something)
10. I’ll Not Contain You
11. the Gleam Pt. 2
12. Map
13. You’ll Be In The Air
14. I Want To Be Cold
15. I Am Bored
16. I Felt My Size
17. Instrumental
18. I Felt Your Shape
19. Samurai Sword
20. My Warm Blood
21. Die
22. I’m Like You, Tree
23. the Glow pt. 2 (sequel)
24. We’re Here to Listen
25. Sleepy Hollow
26. Lanterns
27. Map/Moon
28. the Glow pt. 2 (version)
29. I Want Wind to Blow (backwards)
30. instrumental (version)
31. the Moon (version)
32. Samurai Sword (version)
33. the Gleam pt. 2 (version)
34. My Roots...(version)
35. I Felt My Size (version)
36. My Warm Blood (humming)
37. You’ll Be In The Air (version) You'll Be In The Air (version)
38. the Moooon (version)