Posted by LetsLoop on February 15, 2017, 1:57 pmRavens is the heartbreaking 2nd single from @Mount Eerie's upcoming 8th album, A Crow Looked at Me, which is out March 24th and follows up 2015's Sauna. It is accompanied by an Elverum-directed video, featuring footage of his late wife Geneviève.
A Crow Looks At Me deals with Phil Elverum's reaction to the death of his wife, artist Geneviève Castrée, who sadly passed away from pancreatic cancer last year. In fact, he confronts the subject matter so head-on that the entire album was written and recorded in the room she died.
Here's what Phil had to say about his upcoming release:
"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.) 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."
A Crow Looks At Me will also feature the breathtaking lead single, Real Death.
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