{"id":24408,"date":"2017-02-16T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24408"},"modified":"2017-02-15T20:57:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:57:59","slug":"mount-eerie-shares-ravens-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24408","title":{"rendered":"Mount Eerie shares &#8216;Ravens&#8217; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Eerie, songwriter Phil Elverum, has shared a video for \u0093<em>Ravens<\/em>,\u0094 the second single from the upcoming album &#8216;A Crow Looked At Me,&#8217; written and recorded in the wake of the death of Elverum&#8217;\u0092s wife\u00a0Genevi\u00e8ve\u00a0Castr\u00e9e. The video was directed by Elverum and created using footage shot by himself and Castr\u00e9e in the months and years before her death, reflecting the intimate, candid nature of the music. Watch it below via YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H2R2Ck8qKWM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Previously, Elverum shared \u0093<a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/2017\/01\/26\/mount-eerie-announces-new-album-crow-looked-shares-real-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">Real Death<\/a>,\u0094 the lead track from &#8216;A Crow Looked At Me&#8217;<em>\u00a0<\/em>and an unvarnished expression of stark domestic grief.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Eerie has announced a string of West Coast tour dates this spring, including appearances at When We Were Young Fest and FORM Arcosanti. A full list of dates is below.<\/p>\n<h5>Mount Eerie tour dates<\/h5>\n<p>April 4 \u2013 Eugene, OR \u2013 WOW Hall<\/p>\n<p>April 6 \u2013 Big Sur, CA \u2013 Henry Miller Library<\/p>\n<p>April 9 \u2013 Santa Ana, CA \u2013 Observatory (When We Were Young Fest)<\/p>\n<p>April 10 \u2013 San Diego, CA &#8211; Irenic<\/p>\n<p>April 11 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA \u2013 The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever<\/p>\n<p>April 14 \u2013 Oakland, CA \u2013 Starline Social Club<\/p>\n<p>April 17 \u2013 Portland, OR \u2013 Mississippi Studios<\/p>\n<p>April 18 \u2013 Olympia, WA &#8211; Obsidian<\/p>\n<p>May 12 \u2013 14 \u2013 Arcosanti, AZ (FORM)<\/p>\n<p>In high school in Anacortes Washington in 1996, Phil\u00a0Elverum\u00a0started\u00a0calling\u00a0his\u00a0tapes of self-recorded noise and songs \u0093The Microphones\u0094.\u00a0\u00a0Since\u00a0then, he\u0092&#8217;s\u00a0produced two decades worth of records that span a wide spectrum from studio heavy atmospheric landscaping to simple raw songs.<\/p>\n<p>The Microphones project was nourished by and located within the community of artists around K Records in Olympia in the late 90s\/early 2000s, and Phil Elverum&#8217;\u0092s musical ideas were clearly the product of the flood of independent music in the NW during those years.<\/p>\n<p>After five albums, the project was renamed Mount Eerie just as the Microphones were getting some unexpected\u00a0attention from the widespread acclaim of \u0093the\u00a0Glow pt. 2\u0094 (2001).\u00a0 The Mount Eerie recordings got weirder and broader, and Elverum left K Records and began releasing everything himself, ultimately building a self-contained small town operation in Anacortes called P.W. Elverum &amp; Sun.\u00a0 Radical self-sufficiency has been a theme and obsession;\u00a0 all all ages shows and never though a manager or booking agent, always self-recorded, hands on in all details.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Eerie&#8217;\u0092s albums have always aimed to push into new territory, both in sound and idea, but the thread of Elverum\u0092s voice has remained constant throughout, soft and human amid the wide\u00a0range of textures and worlds.\u00a0 Often the lyrics have attempted to grapple with big questions, the briefness and the smallness of human life being a running theme.\u00a0 On occasion the music has been called \u0093black metal\u0094 (Wind\u0092s Poem, 2009), \u0093dream landscape\u0094 (Clear Moon, 2012), and \u0093raw and direct\u0094 (Lost Wisdom, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>The new album, \u0093&#8217;A Crow Looked At Me\u0094,&#8217; sounds closer to the latter; minimal instrumentation, no production, clear and heavy words right up front.\u00a0 The difference here is the subject matter.\u00a0 In 2015 Elverum&#8217;\u0092s wife, the French Canadian cartoonist and musician Genevi\u00e8ve Castr\u00e9e, was diagnosed with a bad cancer just after giving birth to their first child.\u00a0 She died a year later.\u00a0 Elverum wrote and recored the album throughout the fall of 2016 in the same room where Genevi\u00e8ve died, using mostly her instruments; her guitar, her bass, her pick, her amp, her old family accordion, writing the words on her paper.<\/p>\n<p>The songs are about the brutal details of that experience, from the hospitalizations to the grieving, the specific domestic banalities that become existential in the context of such huge and abrupt loss.\u00a0 These songs are not fun.\u00a0 They are pretty and\u00a0they are deep,\u00a0and\u00a0they\u00a0find a love that prevails beneath the\u00a0overwhelming andreal sorrow.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0is\u00a0unlike anything else in the Mount Eerie catalog\u00a0in\u00a0its unvarnished expressions\u00a0of personal grief,\u00a0metaphor-free.<\/p>\n<p>The writing draws\u00a0inspiration\u00a0from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Julie Doiron, Gary Snyder, Sun Kil Moon, and Joanne Kyger (whose poem \u0093Night Palace\u0094 is on the album\u0092s cover).\u00a0 The sound was influenced by the spare production of the\u00a01996 Will\u00a0Oldham\u00a0album &#8216;\u0093Arise Therefore&#8217;\u0094.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24322\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/A-Crow-Looked-At-Me-Cover_zpsvglnlgeg.jpg?resize=365%2C365\" alt=\"A Crow Looked At Me Cover Mount Eerie\" width=\"365\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/A-Crow-Looked-At-Me-Cover_zpsvglnlgeg.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/A-Crow-Looked-At-Me-Cover_zpsvglnlgeg.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/A-Crow-Looked-At-Me-Cover_zpsvglnlgeg.jpg?resize=768%2C767 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/A-Crow-Looked-At-Me-Cover_zpsvglnlgeg.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/A-Crow-Looked-At-Me-Cover_zpsvglnlgeg.jpg?resize=144%2C144 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><br \/>\nMount Eerie \u2013 A Crow Looked At Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Out March 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a02017 \u2013 P.W. Elverum &amp; Sun)<\/p>\n<p>Real Death<br \/>\nSeaweed<br \/>\nRavens<br \/>\nForest Fire<br \/>\nSwims<br \/>\nMy Chasm<br \/>\nWhen I Take Out The Garbage At Night<br \/>\nEmptiness pt. 2<br \/>\nToothbrush\/Trash<br \/>\nSoria Moria<br \/>\nCrow<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order &#8216;A Crow Looked At Me&#8217; here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwelverumandsun.com\/store\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pwelverumandsun.com\/store<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mount Eerie, songwriter Phil Elverum, has shared a video for \u0093Ravens,\u0094 the second single from the upcoming album &#8216;A Crow Looked At Me,&#8217; written and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24408\" title=\"Mount Eerie shares &#8216;Ravens&#8217; video\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,25,28,29,30],"tags":[5853,1432,5888,5887,1245],"class_list":["post-24408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-live","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-a-crow-looked-at-me","tag-mount-eerie","tag-phil-elverum","tag-ravens","tag-tour-dates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mount-Eerie-by-Genevieve-Elverum_zpsjb9n17a8.jpg?fit=1024%2C987","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-6lG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25696,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=25696","url_meta":{"origin":24408,"position":0},"title":"Mount Eerie announces East Coast tour","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"June 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Mount Eerie\u0092's Phil Elverum will play songs from 'A Crow Looked At Me' across\u00a0the East Coast of North America this September. 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