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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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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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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, 2024Rediscovered domestic happiness imbues Night Palace with a newfound ease, which has yielded his most diverse and longest record to date.
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Jan 3, 2025It’s a resounding testament to Elverum’s unbreakable connection with nature and his singular creative vision.
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Nov 4, 2024The first disc contains some of the loveliest songs Phil Elverum has ever written. .... The second disc, meanwhile, demonstrates that touring with the great anti-fascist doom duo Ragana has done wonders for his work.
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Dec 5, 2024It just finds this fantastic middle ground, not only in the way that its frantic smattering of ideas somehow presents not as overwhelming, but comforting - the exuberance infectious, the fuzz electric - but, also, in how Night Palace ties in with the broader Elverum catalogue.
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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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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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Oct 31, 2024These are the most maximalist songs he has put to tape in years, stretching from sub-one minute sound collages to 12-plus minute prose poems. Melodic indie sits close to a black metal scream by Elverum’s daughter, which a minute later segue’s into louche lounge rock. The intensely personal blends with the political and existential.
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UncutOct 31, 2024It’s an album that is as broken as it is beautiful, a balance that Elverum appears to be gleefully embracing. [Dec 2024, p.28]
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Oct 31, 2024It’s a deeply personal, idiosyncratic journey that doesn’t always seem to welcome onlookers. When it does, though, the glimpses he affords us are fascinating.
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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.
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