Palm plays rock music backwards. Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt’s guitars occupy themselves most often with the pace-keeping work typical of a rhythm section. Meanwhile, Gerasimos Livitsanos’ bass and Hugo Stanley’s drums perform commentary and reportage from their deeply embedded positions at the front. The band is firmly attached to the physicality of rock, but not as much its tone; their instruments tend to sound like any number of things at any given time.
None of the members of Palm are formally trained on their instruments. The band formed in 2011 at college in Upstate New York, when high school friends Eve and Kasra met Gerasimos and Hugo.
Palm have announced the release of a new album, Nicks and Grazes, which will be out on October 14 via Saddle Creek. They have also shared a video for the album’s lead single, “Feathers.”
All those times when you refused to believe that Animal Collective were an updated version of The Beach Boys, you were right: the real update of the Wilson brothers’ harmonic Rubik cube is Palm (just listen to Composite, go check it). Although, as this Philadelphia quartet takes on the beach legacy by the most tortuous of the routes (that of wild pop experiments) they also sound like Avey Tare and Panda Bear. So you were half right… anyway, who cares? Palm’s melodious and instrumental talent is a hydra: out of every tune or arrangement that they splice there come several new ones. And all of them are good. Today in concert at La 2 of Apolo. Primavera Club.
Chaque lundi ‘joie de vivre’ avec Ville à Dômat. La Musa torna per presentar-nos un grapat d’artistes femenines que ens encisaran: Dream Wife,Nilüfer Yanya,Goat Girl,Noga Erez,Skott,U.S. Girls o Anna Burch. Divus Julius Bonasera estrenarà el més nou de Wye Oak,King Tuff,Ought,Holy Bouncer,Bearoid i presentarà a noves bandes com Palm o The Magic Band. Finalment, el mestre Begman ens té preparada una sorpresa.
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Ville à Dômat: Joie de vivre
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