Mount Eerie Is Awarded Best New Music By Pitchfork, #5 Most Added at NACC

Phil Elverum‘s new album as Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me, has earned a 9.0 rating from Pitchfork and a “Best New Music” accolade. The album explores the tragic and shockingly quick death of Elverum’s wife, Geneviève Castrée, an artist and musician who had just given birth to their daughter when she was diagnosed with the pancreatic cancer that would kill her. “It would be easy to hear this album as sad,” writes Pitchfork. “Certainly the facts of Elverum’s story are. But facts aren’t art and art isn’t real, at least not the way cancer is. For an album so firmly anchored by death, Crow is suffused with life: The geese, the forest fires, the crows, the grocery-store lines where Elverum stumbles through awkward conversation with people from town. Tragedy hasn’t stopped him from noticing the world; if anything, it seems to have pried his eyes open for good.”  Check out track “Ravens” below and read the full review here.

Hear the songs that Pitchfork calls “so simple, so tactile, so deceptively real.” A Crow Looked At Me was 5th most Added at NACC this week. If you need a new copy, which was only serviced digitally, please reach out.