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Captured during a festival set inside a 13th-century church in the Netherlands, this live album of songs about death allows listeners to revisit their private grief.

"This is intense," Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum says near the end of the concert captured on (After), and it's an understatement if there ever were one: the only thing scarier -- and more cathartic -- than writing the songs about his late wife, Geneviève Castrée, that made up A Crow Looked at Me and Now Only would be performing them for a live audience.

Phil Elverum doesn't like live albums. In his mind, the studio and live versions of Mount Eerie are separate things, with the latter general...

Following the release of Phil Elverum's perfect, poetic eulogy to his late wife, 2017's A Crow Looked At Me, he embarked on a tour that included not only the first performances of several of those songs but also a second-half preview of what would follow.

Mount Eerie's singer-songwriter Phil Elverum lost his wife, Geneviève Castrée, to pancreatic cancer in 2016.