Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me

It's an absolutely amazing album but also the most tragically sad work I've ever engaged with in any medium. I've only listened to it once because it turned me into a complete mess. I don't know whether I'll ever hear it again.

Mount Eerie is Phil Elverum and A Crow Looked at Me chronicles the illness, death and grieving for his wife, artist and musician Geneviève Castrée. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer four months after the birth of their daughter and passed a year later.

It's filled with large and small observations, like the fact that there's no deeper meaning to Castrée's death and describing the things she did for their daughter before her passing, like buying her a backpack she knew she would never live to see her use.

It is a brutally tough listen.