{"title":"Palm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalm is an innovative and boundary-pushing artist who has made a name for themselves in the music industry. With their unique blend of genres, Palm creates captivating and thought-provoking music that resonates with listeners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving gained recognition for their experimental sound, Palm continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in music. Their ability to seamlessly blend different styles and create intricate compositions sets them apart from other artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a dedicated fan base and critical acclaim, Palm's music is not only enjoyable but also intellectually stimulating. Their passion for pushing creative boundaries shines through in every track they produce, making them a must-listen artist for any music enthusiast.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rock-island","title":"Rock Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn \u003ci\u003eRock Island\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 for signal. Like other groups so acclaimed for their compulsive live show, Palm has been burdened by the constant comparison between their recorded material and their touring set. On \u003ci\u003eRock Island\u003c\/i\u003e, they render this tired discussion moot, using the album form to present that which could never be completely live, reserving for performance that which could never be completely reproduced. Despite appearing behind the instruments typical of rock music, Palm trades in sounds of their own making. On these songs, one of the guitars and the drum kit are used as MIDI triggers, producing an index that can be combed through later and replaced with new information. The percussion is sometimes augmented so as to suggest a multiplication of limbs. The strings are manipulated to choke, crack, and hum like other instruments, or other bodies, might. Working again with engineer Matt Labozza, the band spent the better part of a month in a rented farmhouse in Upstate New York. With the benefits of time and space, Palm recorded the various elements piecemeal, only rarely playing together in groups larger than two or three. While some members tracked, others holed up in the next room, experimenting with quantization, beat replacement, and other methods borrowed from electronic music. Even accounting for the many labors that brought them to be, these materials seem produced by an organic logic. Their complex friction forms a habit of thought, scores a network of grooves on the floor of the mind. This is music with dimensionality. Sonic objects are deployed, developed, and dissected in various states of mutation. The listener flits about between the field and the lab. The tone is warm in a way only the sun could make, the pace as forceful and as variable as a gale. Whether one locates \u003ci\u003eRock Island\u003c\/i\u003e in a sea or in a refinished attic (as in Greg Burak’s album cover), whether one escapes to there or is banished, its psychic environs are charted clearly enough. 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For a number of years the band consumed the lives of its members to a point of exhaustion: “To be honest I think we got a little burnt out. There were times where it wasn’t clear if we’d make another record,” says Alpert. 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To this end, the band continued the age-old tradition of instrument-preparation, augmenting guitars with drumsticks, metal rods and, at the suggestion of Charles Bullen (This Heat, Lifetones), coiling rubber-coated gardening wire around the strings. The unruliness of the prepared guitar on songs like “Mirror Mirror” and “Eager Copy” contrasts with the steadfast reproducibility of the album’s electronic elements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Palm cite Japanese pop music, dub, and footwork as influences on this album’s sonic palette, they found themselves returning time and again to the artists who inspired them to start the group over a decade ago. “When we were first starting out as a band, we bonded over an appreciation of heavy, aggressive, noisy music,” Alpert reflects. “We wrote parts that were just straight-up metal.” Kurt adds, “I found myself rediscovering and re–falling in love with the visceral, jagged quality of guitars in the music of Glenn Branca, The Fall, Beefheart, and Sonic Youth, all important early Palm influences.” Returning to the fundamentals gave Palm a strong foundation upon which they could experiment freely, resulting in their most ambitious and revelatory album to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saddle Creek","offers":[{"title":"Orange | LP","offer_id":50507162911051,"sku":"1162979","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50507163042123,"sku":"1162978","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50507162976587,"sku":"1162977","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/eebc0afe-9d7a-4380-b40b-901d529c5cc2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727840131"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_1c280afd_thumbnail_4096_bd29aa7a-25e0-4261-9e27-3abb2110a911.jpg?v=1726359121","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/palm.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}