NPR and Consequence of Sound Review Mount Eerie

NPR’s First Listen was streaming Mount Eerie‘s new album Clear Moon, which generated a lot of recognition, but is no longer allowing the free listen. The audio feature is no longer available, but the review of the album is still on the websitehere. “Clear Moon is an immersive, sprawling album that finds common ground in folk, ominous chamber music, electronics and, again, ambient metal tonalities” NPR states. In an in-depth analysis of the tonal backgrounds as well as the lyrics, NPR says that Mount Eerie‘s album has been found to take listeners to “a lovely sort of darkness that seems to ponder big questions.”

Similar to NPR’s review, Consequence of Sound attempts to question the meaning behind the lyrics and music of Mount Eerie in Clear Moon. Mount Eerie has always brought poetry into his songs that question the simplest of meanings in life. The general feeling is that “Elverum’s music is visual, the sound of a person falling backward into an abyss, reaching up at the night sky as the ground beneath swallows them whole.” Consequence of Sound recommends the tracks “Through the Trees Pt. 2”, “The Place I Live”, “Lone Bell”, and “Yawning Sky.” The review can be read in full here.