Purple Mountains has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 15 episodes and was first played on 19 June 2019.

Purple Mountains was the creation of American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist David Cloud Berman (born David Craig Berman on 4 January 1967; died August 7, 2019).

In 2019, 10 years since retiring Silver Jews and retreating from public life, Berman returned as Purple Mountains with the eponymous album released on 12 July 2019 on the Drag City label.

Berman is best remembered for his work with indie-rock band the Silver Jews. Although the band primarily existed as a recording project for most of…