Palm offers a dreamy take on math rock with "Crank"
Is anyone finding their dewy and woozy or slick and bouncy summer tunes becoming a bit stale yet?
Step right up to an earful of adventure from Hudson, NY quartet, Palm on “Crank”, their lead single from their upcoming debut LP, Trading Basics.
Not belying its namesake, “Crank”s psych-tinged math rock winds and tumbles to utmost mechanical precision, guitarists Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt’s twin lines bounding in and around the rhythm section. Alpert’s cocooned vocals offer a gauzy counterpoint, matched by a brief, dreamy bridge.
As the Palm gallops toward “Crank”s close, it’s tempting to wonder if they aren’t so tightly wound they might spring apart – and they do, in the final 30 seconds, as they unhinge into a heap of cacophony.
Trading Basics is due out 6 November as a joint LP and cassette release from the excellent Exploding In Sound and Inflated Records. Pre-order both as well as digital at Palm’s Bandcamp page.
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