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Music always carries memory – of other songs, of beats and melodies and the where-and-when of how they imprinted themselves on us. “You were singing at twilight/With your fingers moving/And I’d heard the same song in a dream,” sings Phil Elverum on “Huge Fire,” near the beginning of his epic …

Phil Elverum was feeling blocked. Not in any dire way — just in the way artists sometimes get when things are particularly busy. There was Covid to contend with, as well as the house he’d been building in bucolic Anacortes, Washington. Plus, he’s a single parent, a full-time job. The …