Wild Palms
Tue 24 Nov 2009
Heretic Descendant
Taking cues from The Fall and Bauhaus, London’s Wild Palms are rendering a new strain of aggressive, post-industrial postpunk. Their trademark staunch, mechanical bass and guitar scrape away any superfluous decorations for a suitably dreary, industrialised sound. Wild Palms have been touted as a band to watch by NME, and listening to their debut single, the oddly scripted ‘….Over….Time….’, it’s easy to see why. Released today, the song’s briskly shouted echoey orders coast over rusty pipes of bass and slithery percussion. The basslines do much of the driving in their repertoire, with all instruments binding together in a tightly wound, highly strung epochal message. Lou Hill adopts a stringent, powerful profile as the lead-limbed lead singer, constricting his yelps and howls over Gareth Jones’ tangential bass and Darrel Hawkins’ abrassive guitar, presiding over James Parish’s percolating drums. Elsewhere in their catalogue, ‘Reason Dazzled (Narrenschiff)’ can irk in its early bars but grows tremendous roots as an electrifying and powerful polished rock song. ‘Deep Dive’ is a more emotively pained, poppier take on their catchy riff-led harmonies. Touring Europe at the moment and the UK in December, expect to see a bit more of these folk.
Wild Palms- ….Over….Time….: MP3
Posted by Sarah Gooding under London, UK
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