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A Crow Looked At Me (Album) by Mount Eerie

Artist Biography For Mount Eerie

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 Am Ready For New Things. I Am New." As Mount Eerie Phil Typically Works With Synthesizers Guitars Drums And The Accenting Voices Of Mirah The Blow And Fellow K-Records/Anacortes Washington Friends. Mount Eerie's Album "Seven New Songs Of Mount Eerie" Was Also The First Recording Released On Phil's New Label P.W.Elverum & Sun. All Songs From That Recording Are Available For Free Download In The Internet Archive.

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Frogtoon Music Album Info: A Crow Looked At Me

WRITTEN AND RECORDED August 31st To Dec. 6th 2016 In The Same Room Where Geneviève Died Using Mostly Her Instruments Her Guitar Her Bass Her Pick Her Amp Her Old Family Accordion Writing The Words On Her Paper Looking Out The Same Window. Why Share This Much? Why Open Up Like This? Why Tell You Stranger About These Personal Moments The Devastation And The Hanging Love? Our Little Family Bubble Was So Sacred For So Long. We Carefully Held It Behind A Curtain Of Privacy When We’d Go Out And Do Our Art And Music Selves Too Special To Share Especially In Our Hyper-Shared Imbalanced Times. Then We Had A Baby And This Barrier Felt Even More Important. I Still Don’t Want To Tell You Our Daughter’s Name. Then In May 2015 They Told Us Geneviève Had A Surprise Bad Cancer Advanced Pancreatic And The Ground Opened Up. What Matters Now? We Thought. Then On July 9th 2016 She Died At Home And I Belonged To Nobody Anymore. My Internal Moments Felt Like Public Property. The Idea That I Could Have A Self Or Personal Preferences Or Songs Eroded Down Into An Absurd Old Idea Leftover From A More Self-Indulgent Time Before I Was A Hospital-Driver A Caregiver A Child-Raiser A Griever. I Am Open Now And These Songs Poured Out Quickly In The Fall Watching The Days Grey Over And Watching The Neighbors Across The Alley Tear Down And Rebuild Their House. I Make These Songs And Put Them Out Into The World Just To Multiply My Voice Saying That I Love Her. I Want It Known. "Death Is Real" Could Be The Name Of This Album. These Cold Mechanics Of Sickness And Loss Are Real And Inescapable And Can Bring An Alienating Detached Sharpness. But It Is Not The Thing I Want To Remember. A Crow Did Look At Me. There Is An Echo Of Geneviève That Still Rings A Reminder Of The Love And Infinity Beneath All Of This Obliteration. That’s Why. - Phil Elverum Dec. 11th 2016 Anacortes

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