In an interview with CITR-FM's Discorder in September 2003, Elverum gave his reasons for this change: "Mount Eerie is a new project.

's Alex Hudson scored the album a 9 out of 10, calling the record an "emotionally nuanced meditation on death that is both heartbreaking and hopeful."

After touring North America in the summer of 2017, Elverum played songs from A Crow Looked at Me across Europe and Australasia.

[11][12] The second of these shows became (after), a live recording eventually released in September 2018 and was well received by Pitchfork who noted "the most striking thing about (after) is that, even after so many performances, these songs sound as raw as they did when Elverum first committed them to paper and tape".

[17] The tour was set to take place in April of that year with Julie Doiron accompanying him, however was cancelled and rescheduled to October 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[18] In 2020, Mount Eerie appeared on a charity compilation album entitled The Song Is Coming from Inside the House.

[21] In January 2023, Elverum released "Huge Fire," a new song that appeared on the compilation album Colors to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Japanese label 7e.p.

[23][24] Elverum's music under the Mount Eerie moniker expresses a close relationship to nature and the Pacific Northwest, in particular the minute details.

[27] In a 2014 interview, Elverum discussed how his choice for moniker coming from a mountain in Anacortes was a way of infusing a sense of regional connection between the music and the place.

[28] Brady Baker of Spectrum Culture called Mount Eerie "a solid foundation for an ever-expanding lyrical labyrinth that centers on his introspective philosophy.

believed the opposite, writing that Elverum's work under the Mount Eerie title is more "universal and, at times, hermetic.

[31] Musically, Elverum has experimented with "black metal, lo-fi krautrock, fuzzy post-rock textures and Auto-Tune experimentation".