Seaweed

Mount Eerie

A CROW LOOKED AT ME is an emotional song-cycle about profound grief and loss — poetically observed and felt by Phil Elverum after losing the love of his life to cancer. It brings to mind the CS Lewis book A GRIEF OBSERVED.

Perhaps the best medicine for unfair grief and trauma is to make art out of it.

This song guts me. Just so beautiful — the melody, subtlety. The details. I love the way Phil sings and plays it. There’s something raw and unflinching about it.

I can’t remember
We’re you into Canada geese?
Is it significant
These hundreds on the beach
Or were they just hungry
For mid-migration seaweed

I saw him play this song at a living room concert here in Ashland with Julie Doiron before the pandemic started. Only like 50 people there — it was amazing.

Such a sad, triumphant moment: pouring out your love’s ashes with your 18 month old daughter. In the very place you planned to build your home. 💔😭