{"id":28550,"date":"2018-03-11T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T19:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=28550"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:55:45","slug":"stream-mount-eeries-new-album-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=28550","title":{"rendered":"Stream Mount Eerie’s new album ‘Now Only’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mount Eerie\u0092’s new album ‘Now Only’ is streaming now via NPR First Listen. The anticipated follow-up to last year\u0092’s amazing ‘A Crow Looked At Me’ was written during the period immediately following its predecessor\u0092s release, as Mount Eerie\u0092’s Phil Elverum was beginning to play those songs in front of audiences. The songs on ‘Now Only’ are reflective ruminations on legacy, death, and remembrance, offering deeper perspectives gleaned in the wake of the death of his wife Genevi\u00e8ve\u00a0Castr\u00e9e. They are alternately expansive and direct, tracing Elverum\u0092s relationship with death back to his childhood, memorializing his first interactions with Genevi\u00e8ve, and placing his grief into the larger context of time\u0092s relentless push forward. Elverum is capable of an extraordinary balance of naked honesty, empathy and nuanced thought that is on full display throughout the album. It will be released March 16th<\/sup> via P.W. Elverum & Sun.<\/p>\n

STREAM: Now Only<\/em> by Mount Eerie<\/a><\/p>\n

‘A Crow Looked At Me’ was named one of the best albums of 2017 by The New York Times, the Atlantic, New York Magazine, NPR, Pitchfork, SPIN, Consequence of Sound, Tiny Mix Tapes, and Culture Addicts. Its raw expression of domestic grief has touched countless listeners and continues to resonate with fans a year after its release.<\/p>\n

Pre-order ‘Now Only’: pwelverumandsun.com\/store<\/a><\/p>\n

Phil Elverum\u0092’s evolution as a songwriter has hinged on a balance of boundlessness and intimacy. As Mount Eerie, and prior to 2004 as The Microphones, he has pioneered a distinct form of existential music that feels entirely homegrown. While each album has been unique in sound and approach, they all grapple with big questions in ways that are human and relatable.\u00a0 Death and conceptions of self are recurring themes, presented in direct and oblique ways. Over the course of two decades he has developed an international following almost completely divorced from the larger music industry, releasing and recording his own albums, and booking his own tours. Few songwriters can match the depth of both thought and emotion that Elverum puts into his work.<\/p>\n

The death of his wife, Genevi\u00e8ve Castr\u00e9e, in 2016 from cancer marked a monumental shift in his life and his music. In the months after her death, in the throes of grief and learning how to be a single parent to their young daughter, Elverum wrote and recorded ‘A Crow Looked At Me,’ a devastating and raw expression of loss. \u0093Death is real,\u0094 he sang into a microphone, and then to audiences around the world. The album became Elverum\u0092’s most acclaimed work, with the New York Times calling it \u0093the work of an elegant songwriter knowing just how to render devastation,\u0094 and Pitchfork saying it \u0093forc[es] the listener into the kind of magical thinking that transforms everything in the living world into a sign of the dead, only to snap back into a reality that for better and worse means nothing.\u0094 The intimacy implied by Elverum\u0092s earlier work became the music\u0092s overwhelming quality, with the words being sung creating a direct line between the listener and Elverum\u0092s grief, presented clearly and unencumbered by flair.<\/p>\n

‘Now Only,’ written shortly following the release of ‘A Crow Looked At Me’ and the first live performances of those songs, is a deeper exploration of that style of candid, undisguised lyrical writing. It portrays Elverum\u0092’s continuing immersion in the strange reality of Genevi\u00e8ve\u0092’s death, chronicling the evolution of his relationship to her and her memory, and of the effect the artistic exploration of his grief has had on his own life. The scope of ‘Now Only’ encompasses not only hospitals and deathbeds, but also a music festival, childhood memories of conversations with Elverum\u0092’s mother, profound paintings and affecting artworks he encounters, a documentary about Jack Kerouac, and most significantly, memories of his life with Genevi\u00e8ve. These moments and thoughts resonate with each other, creating a more complex and nuanced picture of mourning and healing. The power of these songs comes not from the small, sharp moments of cutting phrases or shocks, but the echoes that weave the songs together, the way a life is woven.<\/p>\n

The music, fully realized by Elverum alone at home, is fleshed out texturally and seems to react to the words in real time. In a moment of confusion, dissonance abruptly makes itself known; in a moment of clarity, gentle piano arises. On the title track, the blunt declaration of \u0093people get cancer and die\u0094 is subverted by a melody that can only be described as pop. As Elverum reinvents his lyrical process, he is also refining his musical vocabulary.<\/p>\n

Elverum\u0092’s life during the period he wrote ‘Now Only’ was defined by the duality of existing with the praise and attention garnered by ‘A Crow Looked At Me’ and the difficult reality of maintaining a house with a small child by himself, as well as working to preserve Genevi\u00e8ve\u0092’s artistic legacy. Consumed with the day to day of raising his daughter, Elverum felt his musical self was so distant that it seemed fictional. Stepping into the role of Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie held the promise of positive empathy and praise, but also the difficulty of inhabiting the intense grief that produced the music. These moments, both public and domestic, are chronicled in these songs. They are songs of remembrance, and songs about the idea of remembrance, about living on the cusp of the past and present and reluctantly witnessing a beloved person\u0092s history take shape. Time continues.<\/p>\n

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\nMount Eerie \u0096’Now Only’<\/strong> track listing
\n<\/strong>(March 16th<\/sup>, 2018 – P.W. Elverum & Sun)<\/p>\n

TintinIn Tibet
\nDistortion
\nNow Only
\nEarth
\nTwo Paintings by Nikolai Astrup
\nCrow pt. 2<\/p>\n

Mount Eerie will be playing select cities in North America this month, performing songs from ‘A Crow Looked At Me’\u00a0and ‘Now Only’. Elverum performs with just guitar and voice.<\/p>\n

Mount Eerie tour dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mar. 22\u00a0\u0096 Maspeth, NY \u0096 Knockdown Center
\nMar. 24\u00a0\u0096 Los Angeles, CA \u0096 The Cathedral Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian
\nMar. 29\u00a0\u0096 Portland, OR \u0096 Revolution Hall
\nMar. 30\u00a0\u0096 Vancouver, BC \u0096 The Vogue Theatre
\nMar. 31 \u0096 Everett, WA \u0096 Fisherman\u0092s Village Music Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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