In an ever changing world not always shifting in the best way, it is comforting to hear a band like Nashville's post punk goth pop-esque Palm Ghost who don't jump trend trains, who don't dabble in the latest musical tropes and I am so fucking sick of. They infuse their sound of choice with passion and still believe in having something to say. Their latest offering, "Blind", a vast alternative jagged affair with tribal drums and a truly romantic sense, within the vocal croon, passionately pummels us with words about societal suspicion and paranoia. There is a time to fight and a time to recoil and think. 2020 was such a crucial and difficult year that I need time to escape into great artists like Palm Ghosts.
"Blind" is from the bands upcoming album "Lifeboat Candidate" set to drop March 19th.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Palm Ghosts is a dream pop / post punk band based in Nashville TN.
Taking cues from such bands as Cocteau Twins, Peter Gabriel, Echo and The Bunnymen, New Order, early U2 and The Cure, Palm Ghosts takes the sounds of early 80s alternative music and brings it into the new millennium.
In May of 2017 Palm Ghosts found their sound with the release of Architecture, a critically lauded collection of cinematic dream pop songs.
Music News UK put it best when they wrote “The commodified and codified 80’s are here to stay, from the fake consciousness pop culture nostalgia that dominates the virtual shopping aisles to recreated and reimagined movie memories that manipulate and skew the present. Saddled with the past, culture’s inertia offers up facsimile pap and xerox rock. However, hope exists, listen as true light continues to glisten, appearing through the cracks and haunting the NOW are Nashville’s Palm Ghosts.”
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