Night Palace, Mount Eerie (8/10)
Definitely one of my most highly anticipated albums of the year, Phil Elverum dropped his most recent Mount Eerie LP on 11/1/24 w his record label, P.W. Elverum & Sun. I love love loved the singles "I Walk" and "I Saw Another Bird," so I was really hyped for this drop. I'm also just a huge Elverum fan - "The Glow, Pt. 2" is definitely in contention for my top album of all time. Anyways, I was mostly impressed by this! In classic Phil fashion, it's a pretty long album coming in at 1hr 21 min w 26 songs. Usually this would be a huge turn off for me, but he has enough credit that I'll do it for him. I feel like Elverum just does this combination of noise and folk that is so unusual and amazing and I love and also I think this it just feels so accurate to the dystopian mood of the world right now. He really embraces the noise in this album, which I am really happy about. Only things I'm contending w are moments that border on a little "
