Mount Eerie's ninth album, Now Only, has several songs that incorporate multiple tempo and instrument changes, and one of the songs, "Distortion" deals with the ideas of memory and mortality, and is a reflection on the death of Phil Elverum's wife, Genevieve Castree who died of pancreatic cancer in 2016. A studio album by Mount Eerie, Now Only, has several songs that incorporate multiple tempo and instrument changes, and one of the songs, "Distortion" deals with the ideas of memory and mortality.
Now Only is the ninth studio album by Mount Eerie, the solo project of American musician Phil Elverum. The second track "Distortion", which has been described as an 11-minute epic, deals with the ideas of memory and mortality. The song along with others on the album incorporates multiple tempo and instrument changes such as the transition from guitar chords to melodic riffs played on a classical guitar. Like the preceding Mount Eerie album A Crow Looked at Me, Now Only is an extended reflection on the death of Elverum's wife, cartoonist and musician Genevieve Castree. In 2015, four months after the birth of their first child, Phil Elverum's wife, Canadian cartoonist and musician Genevieve Castree, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She died at their home in Anacortes, Washington, on July 9, 2016. 
