The Boston Globe Reviews Mount Eerie’s Now Only

“The merciless forthrightness with which Elverum bared his grief on A Crow Looked at Me made for a brutal yet undeniably powerful and cathartic record,” writes The Boston Globe. Its follow-up, Now Only, “is a different kind of album about death, concerned with how absence simultaneously grows and recedes with the passage of time. The music is slightly less skeletal, with subtle drums, piano, and even some distorted electric guitar briefly supplementing Elverum’s delicate strumming and fingerpicking before receding as suddenly as they appeared. Still, the focus here remains the lyrics, which seem to flow unbidden from Elverum in long streams of hyper-detailed, confessional free verse… On Now Only, Elverum reflects on his personal tragedy from every possible angle… [it] is every bit as heart-wrenching as its predecessor, but it’s not entirely devoid of hope.” Read the full review here.