Now Only

Now Only
Studio album by Mount Eerie
Released	March 16, 2018 (2018-03-16)
Recorded	March 14 – October 9, 2017
Genre	Indie folk indie rock noise rock lo-fi
Length	43:33
Label	P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd.
Producer	Phil Elverum
Mount Eerie chronology
A Crow Looked at Me (2017) Now Only (2018) (after) (2018)
Mount Eerie studio album chronology
A Crow Looked at Me (2017) Now Only (2018) Lost Wisdom pt. 2 (2019)

Now Only is the ninth studio album by Mount Eerie, the solo project of American musician Phil Elverum. It was released on March 16, 2018, on Elverum's record label P.W. Elverum & Sun. Like the preceding Mount Eerie album A Crow Looked at Me, Now Only is a concept album in the aftermath of the death of Elverum's wife, the cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée; Elverum described it as the second part of that album. The album was entirely written and produced by Elverum, and recorded in the room in which Castrée died.

The album departs from A Crow Looked at Me's raw and intimate style of writing, intending, instead, to answer grander and more introspective questions about Elverum's life after Castrée's death. Lyrically, the album focuses on themes of the aftermath of death and the lingering ghostly presence of the deceased. It continues the use of direct lyricism and nearly spoken delivery, first seen in A Crow Looked at Me. Now Only is musically similar to A Crow Looked at Me, although its songs are longer and feature some more diverse instrumentation.

To promote the album, he released the singles "Distortion" on January 17, 2018, and "Tintin in Tibet" on February 20, 2018, and undertook tours of North America and Europe. Now Only was an immediate and widespread critical success; critics discussed the perceived sense of sadness and hope found in the album. It appeared on multiple year-end lists. Elverum's subsequent album Lost Wisdom Pt. 2 (2019) served as a continuation; furthering the themes of Castrée's illness and death.^[1]