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- Summary: The first full-length solo release from Phil Elverum's music project Mount Eerie in six years features 26 tracks.
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- Record Label: P. W. Elverum & Sun
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Dec 3, 2024You have to be in a particular mood—like the aftermath of a disappointing election—to reap the rewards. Night Palace is exhausting and requires a lot of patience for listeners to fully absorb the experiential gestalt that most Mount Eerie albums require.
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Oct 31, 2024With every track a souvenir of good ideas taken up throughout an illustrious career, and every lyric a hard-earned proverb, Night Palace could easily be defined as Elverum’s wisest release. It contains the breadth of a career and of a life spent in dedication to compatible wavelengths, of sounds in the new.
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Nov 4, 2024Even compared to the brilliance of Elverum's albums in the late 2010s and early 2020s, Night Palace holds a special place in his discography. This document of the peace he found while reassembling his life and his music offers a deeply rewarding experience for fans who have loved his sound at any stage of his career.
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Nov 5, 2024In the end, hope shines through. The album is frequently uneasy listening, and notwithstanding the occasional earworm or guitar solo (see “I Walk”), doesn’t work that well with divided attention. But give yourself over to it as an experience, it will likely provide comfort, move you to empathy, and maybe even spur you to action.
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Nov 20, 2024Now we have Mount Eerie’s 26-track, 81-minute Night Palace, which unites the many facets of Phil Elverum’s musical preoccupations into a raw, artful, sprawling double album. Unwieldy as it is, there are so many wonderful moments across the track list that it pays dividends to invest the time.
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Nov 8, 2024Night Palace is an atmospheric, ambitious album by one of modern music's most open songwriters. Its length will certainly be a detriment for some, but those who allow themselves to be absorbed by the bubbling, crashing sounds contained therein will be rewarded with another beautiful, endlessly re-listenable collection of songs and sounds from Mount Eerie.
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Oct 31, 2024With such a varied work—there are even allusions to popular music, like a short sequence of trap hi-hats and Auto-Tune on “I Spoke with a Fish”—some kind of structure becomes vital. But the album’s song sequencing feels arbitrary, and the sound mix obscures much of what Elverum is trying to convey. And yet, because Night Palace defies easy categorization, it ultimately offers a welcome challenge, as mysterious and fickle as nature itself.