Mount Eerie has announced Night Palace, the forthcoming LP, is the first from Phil Elverum’s project in over five years, and will arrive on November 1st via his own P.W. Elverum & Sun label. Today, he shares two new singles, “Broom of Wind” and “I Walk.” Elverum has also announced two live performances this November in New York and Los Angeles.

Mount Eerie released world of an album called Sauna in 2014. Immediately after, Elverum became a father and then his partner fell ill with a fatal cancer and died a year later. These and other brutal waves of change kept pounding for years and it was all documented in the white knuckle songwriting on the albums A Crow Looked At Me (2017), Now Only (2018) and Lost Wisdom pt. 2 (2019).

After a natural disaster, things do grow back. A person catching their breath after a traumatic experience has a kind of reoriented clarity. Art that is made without urgency or expectation has a chance to reach beyond the usual. It was in this patient clarity that Night Palace came to be written and recorded from 2022 to 2024. Elverum’s life settled back down and he reassembled the old analog reel to reel studio at his quiet deep woods home and began experimenting again.

“I saw lighting last night, but heard nothing”, the first song’s first words announce. Mystery is back! Over the next 80 minutes the songs weave our concrete reality together with the charged and rippling world beyond. Birds squawk and we speak back. These are songs of re-surrendering to a state of wonder and abandoning the wrung-dry skepticism that this hard world can impose. And here is the hard world too, in songs of decolonization and backwoods protest. “Some zen, some Zinn” Elverum has joked. With two feet on the ground, he writes with a sharp eye trained toward the quiet flashes in the blue distance. The ground shifts.

Mount Eerie
Night Palace
Tracklist

1. Night Palace
2. Huge Fire
3. Breaths
4. Swallowed Alive
5. My Canopy
6. Broom of Wind
7. I Walk
8. (soft air)
9. Empty Paper Towel Roll
10. Wind & Fog
11. Wind & Fog pt. 2
12. Blurred World
13. I Heard Whales (I Think)
14. I Saw Another Bird
15. I Spoke With A Fish
16. Myths Come True
17. Non-Metaphorical Decolonization
18. November Rain
19. Co-Owner of Trees
20. Myths Come True pt. 2
21. & Sun
22. Writing Poems
23. the Gleam pt. 3
24. Stone Woman Gives Birth To A Child At Night
25. Demolition
26. I Need New Eyes

Mount Eerie Tour Dates

Tue. Nov. 19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
Thu. Nov. 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether

Pre-order Night Palace by Mount Eerie HERE