Phil Elverum Announces Album 2017-01-25 by Black Daimon | 35 Comments | Legendary lo-fi indie musician Phil Elverum has just announced his newest album, 'A Crow Looked At Me'. The opening track, 'Real Death' is available for streaming immediately, and pre-orders are available via bandcamp and Phil's label. Recorded after the death of his wife Geneviève, the album was made using Geneviève's own music equipment, instruments and in the room that she died. A full explanation can be read in far more graceful words here:
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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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Stream/pre-order: www.pwelverumandsun.bandcamp.com/album/a-crow-looked-at-me
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Tagged: Mount Eerie
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smash that pre-order button sputnik
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Haven't really jammed much by Phil other than Sauna, but this is just heart breaking to read
definitely gonna be on the look out for this
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Tears[2] , I'll be all over this
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hyped hard
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this is heartbreaking
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fuck
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not fond of that album art, but sauna was great, will definitely check this out
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Hype
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"A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now. You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down, being swallowed into a silence that is bottomless and real.
It’s dumb
and I don’t want to learn anything from this.
I love you."
Jesus Christ....
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jesus that song destroyed me. really excited for this album though
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goddamn. that song is just too fucking much.
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i thought i had heard the saddest shit out there, i thought i was immune to it. well not immune, but unable to be shocked or surprised anymore by an especially visceral song or artist. but this has to be the most devastating song ive ever heard. im sad now. fuck.
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never pre-ordered something so fast
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well that's probably the most heartbreaking thing I've read in a long time
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and fuck me the song is even more devastating
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yeah song is incredible
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wow.
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song is devastating, especially the final moments
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heartbreaking song jeez. especially the cliff part
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this might take the spot from Songs About Leaving as the most depressing album of all time for me.
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I honestly don't know if I can think of a sadder song than this one
Holy fucking shit
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i havent had a song make me tear up like a little bitch in years.
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Review Summary: I don’t want to learn anything from this.
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Review Summary: Good luck not killing yourself
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heard this song playing at my local Panera Bread.. tears almost shed on my sandwich..
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Please bump my soundoff
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@sinternet backed
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this gutted me
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fuck its carrie and lowell all over again
catch me stockin up on tissues for march 24th
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releases 6 days before my birthday.
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That song is beyond heartbreaking.
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holy fuck
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holy god damn that was crushing
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OK wow tears.
the last lines about the gift for their daughter. holy shit
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my brain fails
words fail
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