Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me ALBUM REVIEW

This album is about death.

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FAV TRACKS: REAL DEATH, SEAWEED, RAVENS, FOREST FIRE, SWIMS, MY CHASM, WHEN I TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE AT NIGHT, EMPTINESS PT. 2, TOOTHBRUSH/TRASH, SORIA MORIA, CROW

LEAST FAV TRACK: NONE

MOUNT EERIE - A CROW LOOKED AT ME / 2017 / P.W. ELVERUM & SUN / SINGER-SONGWRITER, CONTEMPORARY FOLK

Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?

[sydthemachine]

That line in Seaweed especially, "What about foxgloves? Is that a flower you liked? I can't remember. You did most of my remembering for me..", cut into me like a knife.

[jxomxo]

"It's definitely music; what it's definitely NOT is entertainment."

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[shnookems_]

No opening joke, no sound cue after the title...

This is gonna be sad ;;

[Hola-tqpg]

Imagine how sad this album was that it made comment section not throw edgy jokes for a minute

[Thas]

“My daughter asked me if mommy swims, I said yes, that’s probably all she does” idk why that hit me so hard

[ColdDildo]

"I reject nature, I disagree" is one of the most powerful lines on this album, especially within the context of Phil's body of work. So much of his output is about accepting futility, accepting meaninglessness, this whole record is so self aware and self critiquing it's spectacular as a "work of art"

[marcotejada]

"Its dumb, and I don't want to learn anything from this. I love you..." at this point I look up and fan my eyes because I dont want to cry...

[fademusic]

Thank you melon for turning me onto this album, my wife passed away on dec 29 2017. The words I fail to write as a musician, the feeling I am inept to convey through music. It is this album. Thank you.

[nickcieri]

Gotta say, I have a lot of respect for you keeping the jokes down on this review. good video

[MrRrreal]

"and there she was."

this last line in the album just crushed me

[seamusg]

The line from here “You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you” is honestly the saddest lyric I have ever heard. This album is tragically beautiful.

[zachstirk]

The end of Seaweed was the first time a song has made me actually bawl like a baby

[gooeyllewy]

I hope you read the notes on his bandcamp. he said himself, this album is nothing but a way to say he loves his wife to the world

[nutmaster]

jesus christ how sad can an album actually make you? I guess i’m about to find out

[seanmurray]

I don't even want to make a melon joke. Very insightful and respectful. Good Job Anthony

[i.hold.vertigo]

One of my favorite songs by Phil is The Moon from his days with the Microphones, and I was absolutely crushed when a key line from that song showed up here completely re-contextualized. "I went back to feel alone there" was a line he used in 2001 to describe going back to a place that reminded him of a relationship with someone with whom he's broken up (presumably). In 2017, he uses the same words and vocal melody to describe going back home to his bed after visiting his wife in the hospital.

[flipburger]

Once I saw it was 18 minutes I knew we were in for a strong 9

[airplaneoverthesemen]

1 minute in and I can see the respect you have for the man, good job melonhead ❤️

[sim]

I think the reviewer on Pitchfork put it in a very interesting way, that despite the fact that death is the centre-point of this album, and tragedy underpins every song - this album is teeming with life. The sounds, smells, sights of nature along with the youthful innocence of their child really stood out to me in the lyrics.

It's as if Phil experiencing this loss has altered his perspective of life, and that the loss of one of the biggest focal points of his existence has allowed him to view the world in a slightly different way, to ponder sights and sounds that would have passed him by had Genevieve still been alive. While I think this album is of course devastating, I don't believe that Phil wants us to think that life and death is all there is.

[ACOsec]

This album feels like a breach of privacy when I listen to it. Like I feel like I'm reading someone's diary without them knowing. Within the first 15 seconds of the first track I was crying.