Palm ROCK ISLAND 1/19/22 ‚¨SWe have tried to create

‚¨SWe have tried to create a soft and easy-to-listen-to sound that somehow still feels interesting and well-made

and Armand Hammer

The Bristol-based Gareth Turner

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where Oscar is joined by Marika Hackman for a gorgeous duet over a sea of bubbling synths

Palm ROCK ISLAND 1/19/22 ‚¨SWe have tried to createOn Rock Island, their second LP, 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