Palm Rock Island 10/21/2014 to Japan where the crowd’s

to Japan where the crowd’s overwhelming enthusiasm was downright staggering

All the lingering nastiness of One of the Boys -- the smiling Mean Girl backstabbing of "Ur So Gay

Fat White Family are back

and single-minded ruminations on a topic that bud

piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar

Palm Rock Island 10/21/2014 to Japan where the crowd’sOn 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