Album Review: Palace Winter Embrace Adulthood And Authenticity “Nowadays”
How do you combat distraction? Maybe, with another distraction? Palace Winter’s Nowadays is an album dealing with the human condition, mortality, and the challenges of being present in a world full of distractions. How do we find ourselves in a world struggling to define “authenticity” is central to their new record.
From “Pursuit of” to “The Accident” or “Take Shelter” to “Acting Like Lovers”, Palace Winter embrace distraction as barrier to genuineness. Whether intentional or accidental, distractions can block from reaching epiphanies, which is something the duo believes is dire. Thus, jams like, “Empire”, “Take Shelter”, and (Come Back (Left Behind) wine through the thoughts/ verses that make us see when the “outside world” is a place to breathe or a place to feel chocked. It is an intriguing notion considering their album was based on their struggles to embrace “adulthood”.
When you thing of “adulting” it seems so un-fun, which is why distractions can appear welcomed. From Iceage to Skating Polly, many artists are releasing music this week, and it seems their genius has interconnected in their lyrical themes: how to sift through “societal noise” to find individual calm. Palace Winter’s instrumentals feel like a cloudy night at a fun beach party; for how every bright their synths or strings splash, there is an inherent vibe of darkness. While their tracks can electrically ping-pong through folksy-pop melodies, their harmonies are purely human.
Carl Coleman and Caspar Hesselager form a vocal union that appears like two halves of a king; together they sing their lyrics like regal declarations that waltz on dark-red carpets of wisdom. The result is an album that really does feel like Nowadays: both optimistic but still embracing of sadness. They could either make you dance or wallow, but Palace Winter achieve their goal by making you feel moved. For More Information Palace Winter And To Buy Nowadays on May 4 Click Here.
