this is gonna be sad

o jesus

well one song in and this is already devastating

Oh shit it's here. Gonna be my first experience with Elverum. I expect this to be this year's Carrie & Lowell / Skeleton Tree.

going to wait until the time is right

love pretty much every track

starting this stream now

fingers crossed

tbh sowing i've been lukewarm to a lot of his stuff under this moniker and imo this is his best but idk i could just be in hype mode

I've always found his stuff to be too lo-fi for me. The talent is self-evident though so I've avoided rating his material. So far this is not doing much for me tbh.

a red flag that you might have never loved your spouse

jk but not really

omg i'm not ready

i listened on a bus and 'twas a mistake

waitin' for that a+ review johnny

Listened to this this afternoon with my feet up on the bed, sitting back in my tippy chair, tears streaming down my face, and I fell asleep during the final moments for several hours.

I had to shut down my body for a little while after hearing it just to cope.

i read the story behind this album yesterday, wow.

@FoS will try and make it happen this weekend or early next week but we'll see

My only concern with this is that it might come across as a little forced... I'm sure the guy went through a lot of grief but it almost sounds like he was intentionally trying to make a super devastating album because he knows people love that shit. Like the whole narrative of him using his wife's instruments and recording space is just a little too perfect, ya know?

Still I'm going to approach it with an open mind, if the emotion comes across genuinely then I'm sure I'll enjoy it.

Don't worry, Phil has never done anything contrived in his life. He's the most earnest musician on the planet. Unlike Nick Cave's last album, this doesn't feel like an elevated piece of art, a metaphor for his loss or anything like that.

This is just Phil in a room singing to the wife he lost and child he has to bring up alone.

yeah to say this isn't doing it for me would be being nice. absolutely tragic though.

This sounds like a bad time.

It's certainly not a good one.

I don't think a single 5 rating for this is justified. Unless it leaked or something, it has been less than 24 hours since any of us were able to hear this in its entirety for the first time. A 5 rating is almost guaranteed to go down after a while. It's impossible to consider this a perfect album when none of us have given it any time to grow.

Untrue.

the 'change rating' option exists so whatever

How much time do you need? Sometimes it's just a five and you know it.

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this is too fucking much

nothing like a good early morning weep to shake the dust off tho

Just got done with the listen and I don't think I've fully processed this. It's a lot.

Every time "death is real" is repeated, it feels more and more like the truth is sinking in. Hard to process.

Ugh this has me in a mood, but I feel selfish even saying that since it's nothing compared to what he's going through.

it's great obviously

oh good a new 5, this will fit very nicely in my collection

Teared up a little bit just reading the description.

the album will tear you apart then