Palm: Rock Island

Palm: Rock Island - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Rock Island

Artist:

Palm

Label:

Carpark Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

677517012422

Genre:

Rock

Release Date:

2018-02-09

Number of Discs:

1

On Rock Island, their second CD, 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 Rock Island, 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.

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