“Early in the new year, Phil Elverum pledged his return: “I will re-enter the world and go on tour and everything,” he wrote, promising fans attempting to squeeze into a small show intended only for fifty that he’d be around. “You will have a million opportunities to see me play.” The pronouncement was significant: Last July, Elverum’s wife and close collaborator, Geneviève, died after being diagno”
