Palm - Rock Island (Milky Clear Vinyl)

Palm - Rock Island (Milky Clear Vinyl)On Rock Island, their second LP, Palm produces evidence of a distinct musical language, developed over time, in isolation, and out of necessity. On the island, melodies are struck on what might be shells or spines. Rhythms are scratched out, swept over, scratched again. Individual instruments, and sometimes entire sections, skip and stutter. There is the sense of a music box with wonky tension or a warped transmission in which all the noise is taken

" "Lysergic Bliss

A near-perfect album

Meek spins outlaw ballads and quotidian fairy tales into a yarn

adding their signature club prose overtop

and the interwoven layers of instrumentation

self-loathing

the result is an angular

Here in the Pitch is entrenched in more earthen characteristics

while “Killdozer” is an ode to a city lost in the aftermath of gentrification

” a twangy sci-fi country duet about an angel who abducts a cowboy and unintentionally falls in love

as well as classical composition

The project was to be an intentional freak of the industry