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Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum on Turning Grief Into Art
“How does it feel to be called the saddest musician in the world?” I asked Phil Elverum on a Monday morning from his home on Orcas Island. I thought this question, referring to the title of a 2018 Spinoff article, might make him laugh, but instead, he looked at me in seriousness. “I’m not into…
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