artist's proofs

and some serious self-tooting

oh hey.

It’s me Phil from Mount Eerie. Remember me from the relentless advertising emails about Night Palace? No? Oh good.

(and just for old time’s sake, here you can
order it on vinyl
order it on CD
order it as a book
buy/download it on bandcamp)

I’m here now to toot my own horn a bunch of times in a row, just beeping and beeping until it runs out of air. The album came out Nov. 1st and I feel really good about how it was received. People were surprisingly ready for a huge slab of songs, not too scared of its heft. Everyone seems to have heard it in their own way and noticed very different things, which is cool. I like when a thing doesn’t immediately get boiled down into one narrow understanding.

People said some nice things. Here is too long of a list of links to some of the coverage that Night Palace received, in no order:

• appearance on Office Hours Live

• the Guardian feature

• Paste cover story

• The Fader feature

• Reddit AMA from 11/9

• The Massachusetts Review

• FLAUNT interiew (with outfits)

• The New York Times - Lindsay Zoladz’ “Best Albums of 2024” 

• AllMusic “AllMusic Best of 2024"

• Stereogum - “The 50 Best Albums of 2024” 

• Consequence - “The 50 Best Albums of 2024" 

• Paste - “The 100 Best Albums of 2024” 

• Paste review

• NPR New Music Friday (around 36:23)

• NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour

• Perfectly Imperfect newsletter

• Kreative Kontrol interview

• the Needle Drop interview (video)

• the Needle Drop review (video)

• the Needle Drop review (text)

• Exclaim! feature

• Exclaim! review

• Rolling Stone review

• Pitchfork review

• Spectrum Culture review

• Hearing Things review

• Stereogum review

• The Line of Best Fit Review

• Far Out review

• FLOOD review

• the Skinny review

• Aquarium Drunkard review

• Spill Magazine Review

• Shepherd Express review

• Northern Transmissions review

• the Fire Note review

• Deep Voices interview

• Treble overview of my whole deal

• Treble review

• Cult Following review

• Hebron High School Hawkeye Album Review

• Professor Skye’s Record Review (long youtube)

• Beats Per Minute review

• KULT (svensk)

• le Devoir review (français)

• Heavy Pop review (deutsch)

• OOR review (nederlands)

• Indie for Bunnies (italiano)

• Mindies review (español)

• Música Instantânea (português)

• pictures from our Brooklyn show

• and I think my appearance on the internet radio show Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig (of which, yes, I am a head) is airing tomorrow Dec. 7th, 2024 on Apple

• and maybe also my Pitchfork “Perfect 10” is running tomorrow too?

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Phewf. Too much?

Here are some photos from the recent whirlwind trip to NYC and then LA to play the Night Palace release shows with Jenn and Coley and Maria:

Brooklyn at night, at 1 World Trade to do weird press stuff, Brooklyn soundcheck, Time Crisis taping, Office Hours Live, regular sized meal, LA soundcheck, dipshit on the street

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2 shows with Alan Sparhawk!

They weren’t announced when we first announced the Feb. and Apr. 2025 Mount Eerie tours, but now they are! And they’re on sale, going quick. 2 “co-headlining” shows with the great Alan Sparhawk:

Thurs. Apr. 10th, 2025 - Minneapolis, Minn. - First Avenue (with Alan Sparhawk)

Fri. Apr. 11th, 2025 - Milwaukee, Wisc. - Turner Hall (with Alan Sparhawk)

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OK, “artist’s proofs”

Remember the book version of Night Palace? It’s still available.
But remember the ultra-limited hardcover edition, hand lettered in an edition of 26, which sold out in a blink? Those are still sold out. They look like this:

But Jules Faye, the master binder, was able to make a few extra “artist’s proofs” and I’m going to auction one off and give half the proceeds to NDN Collective. After that I may auction another one, depending on how it goes.

HERE IS THAT AUCTION.

Good luck!

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thanks everyone, talk to you later
Phil

currently listening: Arvo Pärt on shuffle
currently reading: The Third Realm by Knausgaard