It’s the house he continues to share with his young daughter, whose amorphous childhood grief he describes so painfully on this song. The family home he shared with his wife Geneviève before her passing from pancreatic cancer. You can hear the house breathing in ‘A Crow, Pt. I press play again, to make sure I have it right. Still, the rawness of it – in its cracks, its wavering pitch and howling moans – something about it makes you avert your eyes, even when you’re wrapped up in the story. He rarely raises his voice above a whisper. It’s a masterpiece, my first 10/10, which shouldn’t be a big deal, but vanity and all that. But the review is already finished and I know how I feel. I’m reviewing the project for Loud And Quiet and so I had no choice, I tell myself. My laptop keeps reminding me that I’m up soon, but it feels wrong to cut the album short. I’ve been a mess for the past half an hour. Enveloping, sour, intimate and finger-picked, like much of the album.
The final elegy from ‘Now Only’, Phil Elverum’s latest album as Mount Eerie, is in its opening guitar notes. Slouched up, hair matted, sinking into a hoody beneath my duvet. At three in the morning, I’m sobbing while ‘Crow, Pt. Once again, thank you.I think about my dad’s death all the time, but I haven’t cried about it in years, so long that I can’t name when or where. I will keep trying and trying, because practise makes perfect. Thank you so much for the feedback, you're the nicest person that's given feedback and considering I've only got a Grade 1 Piano and that's it, I feel as if I'm not doing bad learning the rest on my own. The lyrics were pretty much made up on the spot, but again I agree they're pretty generic, but I wrote them for the purpose of listening to when I'm sad so I can remind myself that I'm doing what I've always wanted, but of course I understand your viewpoint.Īs for the vocals, they were actually quite loud, I'd say they were about mid-shout volume, most of the hiss was caused by the amount of reverb and my crappy EQ'ing at the time, but the reverb had a purpose for me, and I put it there to give an atmosphere of being alone and isolated. All the instruments were digitally made, purely because I am a home recording artist and don't have the equipment or the money to do anything else, but that is something I aim for in the future. Take in what people tell you and I'm sure someday you'll put something out that's really worth listening to.Į.
Keep doing what you're doing - practice, practice, practice. That's punk rock as fuck and I admire that.
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You're dedicated, I'll tell you that, and it seems you really do want to do what you're doing, even without a full level of classical training. That said, I'm sure every musician was at this level before. I'm just going to say that you really need to find a vocal style that suits you and your style of music more - the fact that it was clearly very quiet and recorded at that same quiet volume (which made a really noticable hiss appear) just made me cringe a bit. No empathy, I guess.īranching off from the lyrics, let's talk about the vocals. Pretty standard motivational fare that seemed like any passerby would iterate when faced with an individual voicing their depression. The lyrics, to me, were really cheesy and generic, and didn't really have any substance to me. Also, it was painfully obvious that they were digitally programmed, so they sounded pretty synthetic and disconnected. The instrumentals were okay, I guess, but nothing to really write home about for me. Paradise I'm going to be candid: That was really bad.
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