Night Palace

by Mount Eerie

Almost like a Greatest Hits collection of entirely new songs.

Totally effortless listen, despite the dense, genre hopping run time.

I Walk, Non-Metaphorical Decolonization and Writing Poems easily sit with his best songs, along with too many others to name.

He takes every good musical idea from his entire career and smashes them all together to create something even greater than the sum of its parts. Musical experiments with distortion far beyond the limits of usual good taste, poignant, direct lyrics, and some outright kickass rock songs.

Also includes by far the funniest musical joke of his entire career at the end of "I Spoke With a Fish."

phil elverum is an master of his craft, undeniably a songwriter on the level of his contemporaries david berman and john darnielle. much like those two, his voice is always a welcome joy in my life.

Here for a good time and a long time, I see.