6.6
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#43,230
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“After two heart-rending albums about the death of his wife, Phil Elverum documents a new kind of heartbreak in a set of duets with Julie Doiron.”
“Phil Elverum and Julie Doiron combine forces for their excellent second album together”
“With meandering melodies and directionless songwriting, Mount Eerie teams up with Julie Doiron for a sequel to 2008's Lost Wisdom that pales in comparison to the original.”
“It is the least of the unfairnesses to befall Phil Elverum that a late-career popularity surge came thanks to his candour about the death of his wife. As the Microphones, and then Mount Eerie, he had spent 20 years pushing lo-fi songwriting into profound and unwieldy places. Then, in 2016, Geneviève Castrée died from cancer. A 2017 album, A Crow Looked at Me, was uncharacteristically prosaic: the ”
“On Mount Eerie’s 2017 record ‘A Crow Looked At Me’ and its 2018 follow-up ‘Now Only’, Phil Elverum’s examination of his wife Geneviève Castrée’s death was so devastatingly direct that it was almost painful to digest. He later married the actor Michelle Williams, before they separated after less than a year. A songwriter who dives deeper than almost any other into personal experience, it is diffic”
