The new Mount Eerie album. Night Palace. It's extraordinary frankly. Static and cool. Muttered fervour An Indie guy with an an impassioned, fevered heart. A record worth getting up early on Sunday morning to listen to.
Or else listening to it again in your lunch break at Monday lunchtime.Or early again on Tuesday. I confess I'm playing this a lot, I keep listening to this record through my TV set. It's a wonderful soundtrack to whatever I happen to be doing. A weird contemplative album. It sounds like a record made by a man camping out in a steep mountainside in his tent, sitting huddled on the rock in pitch darkness.
Phil Everum who is Mount Eerie essentially has a track record for grim, sprawling emotional but essentially Independent in the best sense albums. He documented his wife Genevieve's death with meticulous care and boundless grief on record and become homeless and documented that desolation too. Night Palace is astonishing even given that remarkable precedent..
It's such a vast statementit's almost umpossible to process given that it's 26 tracks and almost ninety minutes long. Such remarkabke ambition is certainly commendable but thankfully the record is frequnetly leavened with light, shade and no little warmth and humour. It's immediately became an album that I connected with,and will treasure.
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