A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie (2017)
Imagine, if you will, that you have a soul. A tangible soul that you can actually touch, full of tenderness and joy and sweet delicious sorrow...all of 'the feels' as the kids today say. Now imagine having that soul pulled out of your body and inviting a gang of football hooligans to stamp on it for 41 minutes and 34 seconds. That is the experience of listening to Mount Eerie's 'A Crow Looked At Me'. There have been several albums made about death, particularly around the mid-to-late 2010's - David Bowie's 'Blackstar' (2015), Nick Cave's 'Skeleton Tree' (2016) and 'Carrie & Lowell' by Sufjan Stevens (2015) being standouts among the genre - but none of those efforts, or indeed any album in the history of music, tackled the subject in the utterly unflinching way shown here. It is completely unyielding in it's grief, and although it is by no means an easy or even a pleasant listen, it is an essential one. To clarify, this ...