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I was a junior in high school when I discovered Phil Elverum. It was 2020\u2014sometime around the cold, quiet November of quarantine. I started with one of Elverum\u2019s early projects, The Microphones\u2019 2001 album, The Glow, Pt. 2<\/em><\/span><\/a>. <\/em>It was perfect timing; that same November my mom had to be admitted to the hospital for kidney failure and a severe case of endometriosis. Amidst the broader tumult of quarantine\u2014widespread illness and death, isolation, the utter collapse of time\u2014the most meaningful relationship in my life was put on the line. I lacked the vocabulary to articulate this fear of mortality. So, I would sit on my roof and watch the sunset, bundled up in the snow, while Phil Elverum sang my feelings. The album weaves between soft, folky tracks to grandiose bursts of sound and emotion, so as to encompass the full range of sadness. At times his voice was so fragile and raw I thought I would burst, and other times it felt so full of anguish that it was like I was standing in my grief. The Glow, Pt. 2 <\/em>allowed me to feel my torrent of teenage emotions, unabashedly and unrestrained by pretense, in a world where we often recoil from our own vulnerability.<\/p>\n

As my Mom recovered, I began seeing birds; I discovered Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum\u2019s other major project. While sitting at a table in the hospital lobby the day before my Mom\u2019s big surgery, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. A small brown bird was hopping on the table next to me. It had somehow flown into the building, either through the garage, or an open window\u2014maybe it got trapped in the elevator, or loose from a patient\u2019s cage. We stared at each other, in curious disbelief, then it flew away. My mom\u2019s surgery went well, and in months she made a full recovery. In the weeks following, I listened to Mount Eerie\u2019s A Crow Looked at Me<\/em><\/span><\/a>. It was released one year after the death of Elverum\u2019s wife, Genevi\u00e8ve, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer shortly after the birth of their child. The album marked a departure from Elverum\u2019s earlier projects because it abandoned the abstraction and metaphor of The Glow Pt. 2 <\/em>for plain-spoken mundane details. It was Elverum\u2019s search for meaning in the wake of death. Birds hold a significant meaning on the album, as signs of visitation from another world, spiritual emblems. To Elverum, the crow was Genevi\u00e8ve; to me, the bird was an omen, a symbol of protection.<\/p>\n

Night Palace<\/em> marks another major evolution in Elverum\u2019s artistic and philosophical outlook, one tempered by age and reflection. It sees Elverum finding the spiritual in the everyday, not just in spectacular moments. The title of the album comes from a poem by Joanne Kyger<\/span><\/a> of the same name (and is also on the album cover of A Crow Looked at Me<\/em>).<\/em> The poem\u2019s themes ripple throughout the album: life as a waking dream, the past never really disappearing, death as rebirth, the confluence of all time. On the opening track, \u201cNight Palace,\u201d Elverum suggests that he is embodying a new perspective, saying, \u201cI talk back to birds way more than I used to\/ A spirit world found\/ Out past where belief blows away.\u201d He has abandoned his need to know<\/em> the mysterious inner-workings of the universe, and is simply trading perspective with birds and fish throughout the album as a way to get out of his own human insularity. On \u201cI Saw Another Bird,\u201d Elverum references his previous obsession with birds with a newfound nonchalance, \u201cSo what, I saw another raven?\/ I actually see them all the time\/ And I hear their voices talking\/ About what the rest of us don\u2019t know.\u201d On \u201cI Spoke With A Fish,\u201d over a chorus of his own voice and a skittering electronic beat, Elverum has a This is Water<\/em><\/span><\/a>-esque conversation with a fish about the nature of reality. It teaches him that nothing is solid, that everything is interconnected \u201cflowing matter.\u201d This spurs a beautiful meditation on the metaphysical limits of music: \u201cRecorded music is a statue of a waterfall\/ The flashing glint on the marble where the eye once was\/ On a taxidermied marlin\u2019s frozen leap.\u201d The exhilarating rock-heavy track \u201cWriting Poems,\u201d is a self-referential catalogue of metaphors about how the album can never really get it all, \u201cAnd if masterpiece arises\/ Made of all this that the sky includes\/ A poem only barely says the thing halfway.\u201d Whether it is the world itself or the music Elverum uses to evoke it, he honors the unknowable. Rather than be discouraged by the limits of perspective and creation, he finds solace in them. <\/p>\n

The music isn\u2019t all inadequate expression though.There are an abundance of sonically impressionistic moments on the album that mirror the themes Elverum sings about. Despite knowing their limitations, Elverum never stops using song, poetry, and metaphor to get his points across. \u201cNight Palace\u201d opens with riveting distortion like the flashes of lightning Elverum describes, while \u201cHuge Fire\u201d ends with grainy buzzing like a wall of fire. The chaotic \u201cSwallowed Alive,\u201d is a storm of blows and (his daughter\u2019s) screams, like you have been dropped into a Hieronymous Bosch painting<\/span><\/a>. On \u201c(soft air),\u201d Elverum blows a sonic burst of distortion into our ears with a \u201cWhoo.\u201d The deafening track \u201cWind & Fog\u201d recalls The Glow Pt. 2<\/em>\u2019s \u201cSamurai Sword,\u201d with its relentless monsoon of distorted drum crashes and guitar drone. On \u201cI Heard Whales (I Think),\u201d Elverum insists that he heard whalesong while walking on a beach and lets us decide for ourselves, including over a minute of raw audio from that very beach. Through the tape saturation, crashing ocean waves, and chirping birds, you can hear the faint echo of some melodic drone. We are no more sure of what it is than Elverum, and in playing the clip for us he draws us into his state of awe at the mystery of the world.<\/p>\n

The album is laden with self-awareness, but it never restrains its intimacy because of it. \u201cEmpty Paper Towel Roll,\u201d finds the perfect metaphor for subjectivity: \u201cIt\u2019s as if I\u2019m looking at a corner of the sky through a cardboard tube\/ and I\u2019m impressed, seems huge\/ this is my idea of bottomlessness.\u201d Elverum interrogates his own point of view atop crunchy guitars and drums, wondering if he can see outside of his small perspective. It turns out, he can only steal a peek at infinitude: \u201cand finally the sun cracks over the hill\/ a brief glimpse through wide-open air.\u201d The short and catchy \u201cBroom of Wind,\u201d is another mundane metaphor for our cosmically small and repetitive lives, Elverum describing himself as, \u201cOnly the occurrence of a person.\u201d The track \u201cI Walk,\u201d reverberates with all of Elverum\u2019s past meditations on walking (\u201cThrough the Trees Pt. 2,\u201d \u201cI Walked Home Beholding,\u201d and \u201cPumpkin\u201d). It opens with the sound of rain on a roof and wind audibly blowing, as Elverum walks through towns, \u201csheddin\u2019 slow the generations,\u201d his footfall like a drum. Sonically and lyrically, it is about the paradox of moving forward but carrying the past with you at all times. In this version though, Elverum comes to a clearing and has a moment of spiritual ecstasy: \u201cMist kissed face\/ vast grass shufflin\u2019\/ treeless place\/ expanse encirclin\u2019\/ the sky on my lips\/ fog pulled in slow.\u201d Elverum hums and harmonizes with himself, while epic guitar riffs and drums encircle him, crooning \u201cuntil I, too, dissipate.\u201d Subjectivity may be inescapable, but it is also our route to connection. By communing with nature and the present moment, we can experience union, transcendence.<\/p>\n

The latter portion of the album shows that Elverum\u2019s metaphysical self-awareness extends into introspection on colonialism, ownership, and national identity. \u201cNon-Metaphorical Decolonization,\u201d sees Elverum reflecting on his relationship to the land he lives on. At times gritty with chugging guitars, and other times sparse with gentle acoustic plucking, Elverum rejects everything built on stolen land\u2014he literally wishes \u201cThis America, the old idea, I want it to die.\u201d \u201cNovember Rain\u201d is a critique of his neighbors, who leave their lights on during the part of the year they live elsewhere so as to signal ownership of their private property. On \u201cCo-owner of Trees,\u201d Elverum dreams of a co-ownership between the natural world and its inhabiting humans, cursing the owners who flout their dominion over nature: \u201cI speak a spell against their private property signs, in our woods, I ask, \u2018What\u2019s mine?\u2019\u201d The rattling beat of \u201cStone Woman Gives Birth To A Child At Night\u201d is as restless as Elverum, who is trying to sort out the moral paradox between spirituality and real-world oppression. He feels that his meditation retreat is a privileged space of peace away \u201cFrom the world\u2019s bombing and cries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the 26-song expanse that is Night Palace<\/em>, Elverum is not only in dialogue with all of his past selves, but a range of artists and genres across time and space. In an interview<\/span><\/a> with Matthew Schnipper, Elverum explains that his influences range from Stereolab to Ragana, from Zen Buddhist Sutras to Ursula K. Le Guin. All the inspirations that permeate the album are held together by a tone of exploration and uncertainty. As Elverum mentions in the interview, \u201cI think a lot of people lately have a negative read on [uncertainty], but I think of it as not being too stuck on whatever your viewpoint or your perception is in that moment.\u201d There aren\u2019t always clear cut answers or divisions in the real world, and his music portrays this well. It is the perfect emotional companion for our morally ambiguous times. On \u201cI Need New Eyes,\u201d the final track, Elverum chooses positivity and peace in the name of \u201cmystical ignorance.\u201d He chooses to lay in the tall grass and watch his breath pass, for after all, \u201cThe constant catastrophes pound on the wall\/ And who isn\u2019t my neighbor on this flaming globe?\u201d<\/p>\n

On my first listen, I was sitting on the Orange line across from an old hispanic man. He had a grey mustache. He was wearing a navy shirt, and navy pants, a black Champion zip-up sweatshirt, a black \u201cLA\u201d hat, and white Nike shoes. He was sitting next to who I presumed to be his daughter. He looked tired. He watched me watching him, and I looked away feeling a bit awkward. He looked at me for a bit before I looked back and he averted his eyes. I ended up settling on his shoes and my eyes welled up at Phil Elverum\u2019s voice. We looked at each other one more time before I got off the train. I didn\u2019t know anything about him, but we shared a space together, and for however small and insignificant the moment might seem, we were aware of each other. The reason I mention this anecdote, and my mom\u2019s illness, is because Elverum\u2019s music serves as a reminder that we are alive.<\/em> What truly matters in life is so often drowned out by the daily grind, by rote repetition\u2014\u201cthis endless et cetera.\u201d Elverum\u2019s music reaffirms our presence in the world, among other human beings, in our own fragile bodies. He knows firsthand that we disappear in the blink of an eye which is why he reveres the moment. That is all there is. I am reminded of a James Baldwin quote:<\/span><\/a> \u201cI\u2019m aware, you know, that I and the people I love may perish in the morning. I know that. But there\u2019s light on our faces now.\u201d As Elverum says on the title track, \u201cI\u2019m in love with the last of the light\/ However long I have left in life.\u201d The light takes so many forms. The way a fish swims. A mysterious sound on an empty beach. The beating heart of a tiny bird.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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