Mount Eerie Opens Up About Late Wife, Grieving Process on Maron’s “WTF”: Listen

Mount Eerie Opens Up About Late Wife, Grieving Process on Maron’s “WTF”: Listen

Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum was a guest on today’s episode of Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast (along with Mark Mulcahy). Maron started the hour-long conversation by asking Elverum about growing up in Anacortes, which Elverum described as being spooky like “Twin Peaks.” Elverum also spoke about how listening to Nirvana spurred him to pick up guitar: “I heard Nirvana on the radio, and realized, ‘Oh, regular people can make music too, not just famous-looking people.’”

Around the halfway point, the conversation turned to the recent death of Elverum’s wife, Geneviève, who passed last year from pancreatic cancer. After explaining his grieving process, Elverum concluded: “She did a really good job of having cancer and dying. That’s a weird sentence, but she was incredible at it. She was really good at doing chemo, she was best friends with all the nurses. She knocked it out of the park. She died really well, although I would rather she didn’t.” Elverum then played an acoustic live version of “Forest Fire,” from his excellent album from earlier this year: A Crow Looked at MeListen here, staring around the 7:45 mark.

Read our feature, “Death Is Real: Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Copes With Unspeakable Tragedy.”

See where Elverum’s The Glow Pt. 2 lands on Pitchfork.tv’s “The 10 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest”: 

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