Mount Eerie’s ‘Night Palace’ is a self-assured, emotional album. Drawing inspiration from his Pacific Northwest upbringing, Phil Elverum combines familiar sounds from his other project, The Microphones, as well as a new, more experimental and unexpected musicality. The 26-song album covers personal anxieties, existential worry, and the growth that comes from decades of making music. At times, the record is a blast of all-encompassing sound, only to then shift into a deafening silence of blowing wind. Most noticeably, the carefully-crafted space between tracks “Broom of the Wind” and “I Walk” beautifully compliments the slow, pensiveness of the album. Elverum’s use of the natural elements is familiar, nonetheless still provocative. ‘Night Palace’ poses change as the only constant and nature as a comparatively grounding solace.