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The Line Of Best Fit
Night Palace could easily be defined as Elverum’s wisest release. It contains the breadth of a career and of a life spent in dedication to compatible wavelengths, of sounds in the new.
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Spill Magazine
Elverum took his time with this album. Night Palace is startling, brave, and utterly brilliant
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PopMatters
Mount Eerie’s new LP takes listeners on a slow journey through somber moods and reflective soundscapes, rich with poetry and imaginative storytelling
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8.6
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Beats Per Minute
While much of it is in Elverum’s favoured strolling alt-rock gait with layers of distortion, the canvas is wide enough to encompass stripped-back acoustic songs and full-bore black metal passages
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Pitchfork
Phil Elverum’s first Mount Eerie album in five years feels like a culmination of his work over the past 25 years, making room for all his earlier selves and sounds
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Night Palace is a chaotic (good) album, one that doesn’t comply with pigeons or holes, and just won’t fit into a neat coherent narrative, as much as I have attempted to horn that shoe
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Spectrum Culture
Mount Eerie returns after five years with an album of self-liberation, involving elements of Zen Buddhism and rocking out.
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Exclaim
Night Palace is an atmospheric, ambitious album by one of modern music's most open songwriters
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Rolling Stone
Phil Elverum's latest is a thorny, beautiful 80-plus minute journey
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The Skinny
On Night Palace, Phil Elverum continues to muddy the idea of a musical identity, sounding closer to work he's released as The Microphones
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Uncut
It’s an album that is as broken as it is beautiful, a balance that Elverum appears to be gleefully embracing. Print edition only
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Far Out
Phil Elverum has long been the master of flowing journeys into the mind’s eye, and with Night Palace, a record of such substance that it takes a few listens to really make sense he’s produced one of his best yet
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7.5
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Paste Magazine
Phil Elverum seems to have made peace with impermanence on his latest, a sprawling 26-track double album
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7.5
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Northern Transmissions
The strength of the album isn’t in the casual listening or in the individual songs – these are all weaknesses for the songs by themselves do not work as well as when they are listened to alongside the others
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6.0
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Slant Magazine
The album defies easy categorization, which ultimately offers a welcome challenge
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