{"id":4187,"date":"2017-07-07T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:33:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:33:46","slug":"palm-jagged-art-rock-challenging-rewarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/palm-jagged-art-rock-challenging-rewarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm’s jagged art rock is challenging but rewarding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine being on stage in a crowded room and performing a song that isn\u2019t even finished yet. Sounds scary, right? For Philadelphia-based band Palm, this is something of a regularity, and they\u2019ll be able to prove it tonight at The Frequency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Formed in 2011 during their undergrad years in upstate New York, Palm is, in the simplest sense, a \u201crock\u201d band. The quartet has spent months writing and collaborating and then bringing that work on tour. And where their first album, 2015\u2019s Trading Basics<\/em>, came from a place of just trying to get some music into the world, 2017\u2019s Shadow Expert<\/em> has come with some more experience under their belts. But for the minds behind the music, assigning a genre is less important, and maybe even challenging.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re so focused on doing what we\u2019re doing that I think we lack the perspective to categorize it,\u201d says Kasra Kurt, one of the band\u2019s vocalists and guitarists.<\/p>\n

If the genre is hard enough for the band itself to pinpoint, for their listeners it\u2019s something else altogether. Each song is like a journey, with rapid tonal twists, tempo changes, experimental blending and rhythmic intensity, leading some to classify Palm as \u201cmath rock.\u201d All the different instruments have their own separate parts, often all going in wholly different directions.<\/p>\n

Musically, the guitars of Kurt and fellow guitarist and vocalist Eve Alpert seem to speak to each other in a winding, call-and-response-style. Bassist Gerasimos Livitsanos and drummer Hugo Stanley provide backing for it with their own twists and turns.<\/p>\n