But fear and terror coexist here with the flickering moments of bliss. The 51-second “Swallowed Alive” is a blast of shrieking and din, with Elverum’s kid Agathe speaking the only lyrics (“You get ...

Winter in Northwest Washington’s temperate San Juan Islands may not be the freezing, brutal onslaught faced by comparable latitudes further inland, but four months of uninterrupted wind, rain, and ...