Mount Eerie - No Flashlight

That’s a good sales pitch. I’m going to see David Toop and Loren Connors the night before there (highly recommend, free/donation gig), maybe I’ll back to back it? Time to listen to his new material and see what he does

I kind of got off the bus after A Crow Looked At Me, seems like I have a lot to catch up on.

if you've ever been a fan of any of his music you've absolutely gotta hear microphones in 2020, it's his masterpiece. utterly transcendental

Just chucked it on, nice to return to that lovely stereo acoustic percussive thing he had going. A mellow version of one of my favourite gastr del sol numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDfGFW6MZo

Thanks for the rec ufo, just bought a ticket. Let me buy you a drink if you're up for it (y)

good show tonight, nice to meet H.P too

the new material (which made up most of the show) was great to hear and i'm looking forward to the album. i do hope "huge fire" will be on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpyhHs32SpY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-2JL00JdwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyYDdVxDJOg

new music at last! "i walk" is pretty great

double album Night Palace out november 1

Night Palace
Huge Fire
Breaths
Swallowed Alive
My Canopy
Broom of Wind
I Walk
(soft air)
Empty Paper Towel Roll
Wind & Fog
Wind & Fog pt. 2
Blurred World
I Heard Whales (I Think)
I Saw Another Bird
I Spoke With A Fish
Myths Come True
Non-Metaphorical Decolonization
November Rain
Co-Owner of Trees
Myths Come True pt. 2
& Sun
Writing Poems
the Gleam pt. 3
Stone Woman Gives Birth To A Child At Night
Demolition
I Need New Eyes

features most (all?) of the songs he was playing live last year & many many more

Ordered. I wish I'd been organised enough to see if anyone else in the UK wanted to purchase at the same time (the postage being so ridiculous).

and two days after he put up nice new tshirts, with my sizes sold out already, goddammit Phil!

can't wait for this. picking up the physical someday

two new book products as well. killing me

His newsletter with a long bio/intro for the album is a great read! Sounds like he's doing very well. Interesting remark that Lost Wisdom Part 2 was a failure (i mean i know it's about a failed relationship ..)

https://pwelverumandsun.substack.com/p/night-palace-by-mount-eerie

on topic, apparently the unfolding cover/poster is even larger than the one for No Flashlight

i don't think he's saying that lost wisdom part 2 was a failure, but that the relationship was. i definitely don't like it as much as the albums either side of it

it feels surprising that he's never made an album as long as the new one before, it really seems like a natural fit for his approach

"not yet fully understanding what had happened to me ... I made songs as a vote cast toward fearlessness and honesty and against the cautious heart-guarding that can keep so many of us from what’s actually ecstatically possible. (Lost Wisdom pt. 2) It didn’t work. I am embarrassed."

I could see how he might still regard this as a valiant effort but also be embarrassed by its content (still in love with person after divorce). The present tense "I am embarrassed" is unique in this little career recap, iirc.

i definitely don't like it as much as the albums either side of it

Same but now curious to revisit

Oh, I should have been patient - the LP/CD are for sale at Norman Records (and presumably other places).

https://www.pwelverumandsun.com/pages/international-stores

I know some Canadian shops that will have it, but they're not going to bother listing it until they have it in hand (if they do online at all). So thanks for the tip on Norman. UK to Canada is somehow not so bad these days (I do an occasional order from Juno, ever since Germany's rates got jacked up)... funny that Norman would've actually saved me a few bucks if I ordered there. But I just went direct and picked up some other stuff while I was at it.

"i walk" is pretty great

it really is. he def shows how to do a final act, damn

enjoyed broom of wind too. imma sucker for sinister w a groove

not bold, sry

x-posts.

I did much the same, maf you. Ordered two more CDs, which didn't change the postage.