Mount Eerie: Now Only review – drops of light pierce the fog of grief | Alexis Petridis' album of the week

Phil Elverum’s last album focused unsparingly on his wife’s death, and a year later, the loss is still paralysing, though leavened with tiny moments of hopeIt’s not often that an artist describes their latest work as “barely music”, but that was the frank assessment posited by singer-songwriter Phil Elverum about his eighth album under the name Mount Eerie, 2017’s A Crow Looked at Me. Elverum had a point. Since the late 90s, when he began releasing music a...

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