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CMU Approved
Approved: Palms (SNAP Of The Day)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 30 September 2009
Here’s some exotic electronic music for you, with New Yorkers Palms working with some sparse beats on their debut album, ‘It’s Midnight In Honolulu’, a record that recalls the German kosmische movement of Cluster et al as much as the lo-fi indie of Velvet Underground (one could be mistaken for thinking it was Nico singing on ‘Der Koenig’). It’s a record full of sweet sounds that are both uplifting and escapist, though there’s a prevalent dark undercurrent which can particularly be found in the lyrics, if you can make them out from the floating vocals. They have a star calling card too, of course, with Nicoloas Vernhes, producer of Animal Collective, Cat Power and DFA’s Black Dice, heading up production duties, which is a fact that definitely looks good on a press release in late 2009.
