Stereogum — Mount Eerie's new album is a gutting collection of songs about death and grieving. It's called A Crow Looked At Me, and it mostly focuses on the passing of Phil Elverum's wife, the illustrator and musician Geneviève Elverum, née Castrée. The album... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — The inaugural California festival also includes Taking Back Sunday, AFI, Alkaline Trio, Saves the Day, Foxygen, FIDLAR, Choking Victim, David Bazan, and more.
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Brooklyn Vegan — The record is a very personal one for Phil Elverum, dealing with the death of wife, artist Geneviève Castrée, last year after a battle with cancer.
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Stereogum — Phil Elverum's wife, illustrator and musician Geneviève Castrée, died in July, a year after being diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer and a year after giving birth to their first child. Elverum spent the following fall recording a new Mount E... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — It includes a new song ("Crow") from Mount Eerie's upcoming, unannounced album. It also includes a Pains of Being Pure Heart song exclusive to this compilation ("It's To Be Loved"), a cover of "Hey Paula" by Dean & Britta, and more.
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Stereogum — Phil Elverum is working on a new Mount Eerie album, and one from it, "Crow," appears on a new compilation album to benefit the ACLU. Is There Another Language?, curated by Ben TO Smith of Gezellig Records and Peter McCarville of Best Friend, also fea... more info
Stereogum — Last week, Phil Elverum announced his first Mount Eerie show in a little over two years, explaining that he would perform a set of new material about the recent death of his wife Geneviève during a free concert at Anacortes, Washington's Business re... more info