It's Tuesday, right? Don't argue. It is. Anyway, we're nearly at the midway point of the week and that calls for some more new music to wet your whistles with (or whatever you want wetting - your pants, your hair etc...I'm easy).
What can thegeneral offer you? PALACE is what thegeneral can offer you. A great band from Hartlepool who have been on my radar for quite a while and really do deserve great things. Last year, they released the beautifully atmospheric and haunting EP "Apology In Demand" which, as always, you can download and love from their bandcamp page here:
musicfrompalace.bandcamp.com/album/apology-in-demand-demos-20th-jan-12
Highly recommend you do as as it's a great introduction to them. ("Collapse", in particular has the most brilliantly wide spacey chords in it...perfect).
However, that's not what we're here to talk about. The band have a new EP out - it was released at the start of September and at the moment you can buy it from iTunes here:
all-of-this-is-real-ep/id724635975
There will hopefully be a Spotify release date soon, though as yet no news on whether it will appear on the band's bandcamp site.
What can it offer? Intricate guitars, beautiful, beautiful dirty bass and nicely understated vocals/lyrics. That's exactly what. The eponymously titled opening track has such a great, other wordly feel to it. It's heartbreaking. It feels, like so much of PALACE's stuff, that it's both wide open and full of space, yet tightly woven and really well constructed. These guys are clever, smart and a joy to listen to and it's nice to find an EP in which every track offers something different - a change in pace, mood or tempo. The last track "The Rope" is an offbeat, slightly discordant finish and it's a lovely way to end it.
Please go and buy this if you can - and support another great emerging act from Hartlepool. PALACE are for sure one to watch.
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