Blitzen Trapper play Friday, November 16, at the Crocodile. Tyler Kohlhoff
A decade after its release, Blitzen Trapper’s breakthrough LP Furr plays like an artifact from the lost (and perhaps mythological) city of “Old Portland.” It’s ironic how the album’s cover depicts the band’s name carved into a tree trunk—like they always knew it’d eventually preserve the memory of a bygone era.
“When we first started touring, people wouldn’t even know where Portland was half the time, or even where Oregon was,” frontman Eric Earley explains from a ferry on the way to Victoria, BC, the first stop of the band’s fall tour in support of Furr’s 10th anniversary reissue. “It used to be a much stranger place. You just didn’t know what you were going to come upon.”