Palm - Rock Island (Milky Clear Vinyl) Molchat Doma abstract and personified – perhaps

abstract and personified – perhaps the key to the whole record

bossa nova

inexpensively made demo tape — paid for by Black Francis' dad — the band made at Boston's legendary Fort Apache studio soon after they formed

to communicate the feeling of overwhelming light they experience while performing—a brightness that moves beyond its common properties of health and guidance to become a force that burns and ravages

Take It from the Man

Palm - Rock Island (Milky Clear Vinyl) Molchat Doma abstract and personified – perhapsOn 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