A Crow Looked at Me

2017, Mar 24

Apple Spotify Bandcamp Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk 99 Highly Rated P.W. Elverum & Sun Indieheads 367 Pitchfork 9.0/10 A.V. Club A- The Needle Drop 9/10 Paste 9.2/10 All Music 5/5 Exclaim! 9/10 Under The Radar 8.0/10 Mojo 4/5 Pop Matters 10/10 Spectrum Culture 85% Sputnikmusic 4.0/5 Uncut 9/10

Pitchfork 9.0/10 Phil Elverum lost his wife—an artist and the mother of his child—to cancer. His new album is a meditation on her memory, but also on what it means to keep living.

A.V. Club A- Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn is a deeply empathetic songwriter. That’s not always obvious, since his characters tend to be working through (self-imposed) streaks of bad luck or turbulent emotional spirals. However, even his protagonists with shifting moral compasses tend to be likable, mainly because Finn is adept…

Under The Radar 8.0/10 A Crow Looked at Me is an unflinching look at life going on after the loss of someone dear, as much about love as it is about death.

Spectrum Culture 85% Heartbreaking doesn’t even begin to describe A Crow Looked at Me.