Night Palace

by Mount Eerie

It feels cliche to call an artist's latest release the culmination of their body of work, but Night Palace truly feels like the album of sounds, words, and emotions that Phil Elverum has been steadily building toward for twenty years. Not quite a fully realized masterpiece, but certainly closer than he's been in a long long time. This is the kind of album that the listener sits with for years and years, getting lost exploring its winding paths and narrowest tributaries time and time again, following the trails and staring off into the distance and letting its ice cold breeze permeate the core of your being in small doses. The common threads between nature and noise have never been clearer.