SHADOW EXPERT

Limited royal blue colored vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. In describing Palm to the uninitiated, itAEs sometimes necessary to clarify the meaning of the groupAEs name by raising oneAEs hand in the universal symbol of greeting and goodwill. The act of corroborating the aural with the gestural occurs everywhere in their work. On their latest EP, Shadow Expert, the syntax of popular music is regarded suspiciously and often subjected to revisions or reversals. Without formal training in their instruments, the players are left to determine their own musical language. Eve Alpert and Kasra KurtAEs guitars occupy themselves most often with the pace-keeping work typical of a rhythm section. Meanwhile, Gerasimos LivitsanosAE bass and Hugo StanleyAEs drums seem to perform commentary and reportage from deeply embedded positions at the front. Their contributions remain necessary to the composition, generating the kind of friction that other motion can be charted against: the grinding of teeth, the turning of an engine.