Mopping up in November. The new Mount Eerie album. Night Palace. It's extraordinary frankly. Static and cool. Quiet 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.Ir 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 teny, sitting huddled in the rock as the darkness.
Phil Everum who is Mount Eerie essentially has a track record for grim, sprawling emotional records. He documented his wife Genevieve's death with meticulous care and became homeless. Night Palace is astonishing even given that track record.
It's also so vast it's almost umpossible to process given that it's 26 tracks and almost ninety minutes long. Such vast ambition is certainly commendable and the record certainly has light and shade and is frequetly leavened with light, shade and no little warmth and humour. It's immediately became an album that I connected with,and will treasure.
I listened to a couple of tracks, and they were kind of incredible, but the thought of committing 90 minutes to the whole thing put me off. Which is a bit pathetic. Going to give it a proper go now.
ReplyDeleteRosy Overdrive introduced me to a couple of albums from earlier in the year by cistern and Think About You, which I was listening to yesterday. Also, new albums by Vista House and Orillia for a country kick.
ReplyDeleteOh I understand that reaction to the Mount Eerie Darren. That's ludicrous length. There's something about the record that really strikes a chord though. I can't listen to it. Thanks for the additional information.
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