This is the most devastating album you'll ever listen to. It details the death of the artist's (Phil Elverum) wife just a little while after they had their daughter and his struggle with it. It was recorded in the room that she passed away in. Someone in the comments of a video said it's like listening to someone going through immense grief in real time, and I have to agree. That's because it is.

Although it is fictional, I draw a lot of comparisons to the album "We Don't Have Each Other" by Aaron West. It is a concept album about a divorce after the death of an unborn child.

I don't know if anyone feels the same way, but I've always felt a certain catharsis to listening to someone deal with what they are struggling with through music. It's why I love Blue October so much. Maybe it's because I'm a musician and I empathize with that feeling. Writing and performing songs about things that deeply affect you does help you deal with them and I think it can go a long way to help others too, in ways you never even intended.

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
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