Mount Eerie Releases Devastating "Ravens" Video, Announces West Coast Tour Dates

Mount Eerie’s latest music video for “Ravens” speaks for itself, and it has a lot to say. The song is the second single from Phil Elverum’s forthcoming album A Crow Looked At Me, an attempt to process the death of his wife, Genevieve. In the months following her death, Elverum recorded the album in the room in which Genevieve died, using the instruments she owned with the words written on her own paper.

The song “Ravens” is packed with the raw authenticity that one could expect from this process. The song avoids figurative language, opting instead to tell the story of his marriage with painful honesty. The video features old camcorder recordings, presenting scenes from Elverum’s marriage and even some footage of Genevieve herself.

The song, at heart, ponders the weighty “what now” question by which Elverum is acutely confronted. Elverum questions whether it’s reasonable to anticipate a reunion, remarking:

And I’m left living like this
Crying on the logging roads with your ashes in a jar
Thinking about the things I’ll tell you
When you get back from wherever it is that you’ve gone
But then I remember death is real

Still, the song doesn’t give in to despair, but rather uses the grieving process as a way for Elverum to remake himself. Elverum introduces a glimmer of hope to the song’s end, saying:

Mount Eerie Releases Devastating “Ravens” Video, Announces West Coast Tour Dates