New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today, the rising UK group Palace share "How Far We've Come," the latest preview of a new EP coming out later this spring. It's a soaring, melancholic work that bridges the gap between Travis's pensive balladry and the rich experimentalism of Alex G.
"'How Far We've Come' is about an anxious and fearful glance into the future at what's to come, with a sense of anger at the chaos we've created." explains singer Leo Wyndham. "It's about the helplessness and hopelessness we can all feel sometimes knowing that time is ticking."
Earlier this year, Palace announced their biggest North American headlining tour to date, with 18 shows in 1000+ capacity rooms across the US and Canada, including nights at Brooklyn Steel, DC's 9:30 Club, The Wiltern in Los Angeles and over a dozen more. These landmark dates continue the band's explosive growth in the US and Canada. With over 1.5 million monthly Spotify listeners, recent sell-outs at Webster Hall and back-to-back nights at The Fonda, and a massive headlining show at London's O2 Academy Brixton, as well as a debut Australian tour in December 2022 and recent US festival appearances at Life Is Beautiful, Portola, and Format, it's a near-certainty that Palace, as Line Of Best Fit says, "will be filling stadiums before long.
Earlier this spring, Palace shared the new EP's lead track "All We've Ever Wanted," a track that straddles the anthemic, lighters-aloft sentiment of Britpop's finest and an artfully applied sheen of shoegaze noise.
2022's Shoals is a profound and pensive album, boldly exploring some of life's greatest questions over its 12 mesmerising tracks. The album deftly explores the interplay of three central existential dilemmas against a broader backdrop of wonder at the vastness and power of the ocean, concluding its arc with the stunning opus "Where Sky Becomes Sea." Through diving into themes of the subconscious, dreams and existentialism, Shoals'is broadly a record about living with and processing fear.
Leo Wyndham, Matt Hodges and Rupert Turner released their acclaimed debut EP Lost In The Night in 2014, followed by the Chase The Light EP the following year, their debut album So Long Forever in 2016 and sophomore album Life After in 2019.
USA TOUR 2023
Tues May 30, Dallas, TX - South Side
Music Hall
Weds May 31, Austin, TX - Emo's
Fri June 2, Orlando, FL - The Beachum
Sat June 3, Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
Sun June 4, Charlotte,NC - Underground
Tues June 6, Washington DC - 9:30 Club
Fri June 9, Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
Sat June 10, Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
Sun, June 11, Boston, MA - Royale
Tues June 13, Montreal, QC - Corona
Weds June 14, Toronto, ON - Danforth
Music Hall
Fri June 16, Columbus, OH - Newport
Music Hall
Sat June 17, Detroit, MI - St Andrews Hall
Sun June 18, Chicago, IL - House of Blues
Tues June 20, Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
Weds June 21, Salt Lake City, UT -
Rockwell @ Complex
Fri June 23, Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern
Sat June 24, San Francisco, CA - Fox Theatre
PRAISE FOR PALACE & SHOALS:
"Expansive and emotive…beautiful, bleakly shaded tunes." - Stereogum
"A spare, appealing blend of minimalist folk and sweeping orchestral pomp." - The AV Club
"Feels like Palace's first significant work." - MOJO ****
"Shoals manages to offer consolation and tranquillity from beginning to end." - Dork Magazine ****
"A more pure and intense sound!" - TOP40-CHARTS
"Not many bands do better emotionally literate, melancholic indie at the moment" - The Observer
"A band of emotional extremes…that is what makes them so exciting"- Jack Saunders, BBC
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