Palace Confronts Existentialism With Beautifully Bleak Arrangements, Listen HERE

New Album Shoals Out January 21st

“A spare, appealing blend of minimalist folk and sweeping orchestral pomp.” – AV Club

“Scarily gorgeous rock.” – Happy Magazine

"Feels like Palace's first significant work." ★★★★ – MOJO

 

Ahead of the release of their spellbinding third album Shoals (out January 21st), today London band Palace releases their latest single, the beautiful but bleak “Shame On You” via Avenue A / Fiction. 

Steeped in reverb, flowing with emotion, Leo Wyndham’s stirring falsetto glides across the deeper vibrations of “Shame On You’s” more spacious arrangements. Confronting existentialism in stride, the group’s sound is distinct and assured, proving once again that Palace has mastered the art of “emotionally literate, melancholic indie” (The Observer). 

Today’s live performance video release spotlights the group’s aqueous arena rock, all-enveloping sound delivered in nonchalant fashion. Watch the video, directed by filmmaker and photographer David J. East (Foals, The Japanese House), here: https://palace.lnk.to/ShameOnYouPR/YouTube

Forthcoming record Shoals is the band’s love letter to fear and the fullness of life one experiences when facing it down. Unsurprisingly, the sea was a major inspiration, as the record posits the ocean’s violent yet beautiful energy as the ebb and flow between sheer panic and euphoric relief. Recent single “Sky Becomes Sea” perfectly encapsulates the album’s purpose, confronting death — the ultimate phobia — with dreamy and elegiac orchestration that builds steadily beneath unhurried backing vocals. Listen here.

As frontman Leo Wyndham explains: “‘Shoals’ is a record about confronting our own fears and anxieties. Through the pandemic we were confronted more than ever with ourselves with little distraction, suddenly seeing who we are in the rawest of forms. It held a mirror up to our flaws and imperfections and forced us to see the real 'us'. 

The record symbolises how our minds can have beautiful yet dangerous depths, like the ocean, and how our fears and thoughts are like shoals of fish that move and shift constantly from place to place; chaotic, often untameable and unpredictable.”

In addition to ''Sky Becomes Sea'' and today’s "Shame On You," Shoals will include the brilliant singles "Fade," "Lover (Don’t Let Me Down)," and "Gravity" released earlier this year and praised by NME, Stereogum, The Observer and more. The album’s release will kick off Palace’s biggest tour yet, with sold-out dates across the UK, Europe, and the US, including their biggest show to date at the O2 Brixton Academy and US tour dates at NYC’s Webster Hall, DC’s 9:30 Club, Austin’s Empire Garage, and The Fonda in Los Angeles.

Pre-order/pre-save Shoals here: https://palace.lnk.to/Shoals/So

SHOALS TRACKLIST

Never Said It Was Easy

Shame On You

Fade

Gravity

Give Me The Rain

Friends Forever

Killer Whale

Lover (Don’t Let Me Down)

Sleeper

Salt

Shoals

Where Sky Becomes Sea

Does Nothing Good Last Forever

 

PRAISE FOR PALACE

“Not many bands do better emotionally literate, melancholic indie at the moment.” – The Observer

“Beautiful, bleakly shaded tunes that nestle in between emo and retro sensibilities.” – Stereogum

“A record built to last.” – Dork Magazine

“A spare, appealing blend of minimalist folk and sweeping orchestral pomp.” – AV Club

“Mature and poignant.” – DIY Magazine

“Scarily gorgeous rock.” – Happy Magazine

“Velvety vocals that will send shivers down your spine.” – i-D

 

UK & IRELAND TOUR 2022

February 3rd, Glasgow, SWG3

February 4th, Manchester, O2 Ritz

February 5th, Bristol, O2 Academy

February 6th, Leeds, University Stylus

February 8th, Dublin, Vicar St

February 10th, Nottingham, Rock City

February 11th, London, O2 Academy Brixton

 

EUROPEAN TOUR 2022

February 17th, France, Paris, La Maroquinerie

February 18th, Belgium, Ghent, Vooruit Balzaal

February 19th, Germany, Cologne, Luxor

February 20th, Switzerland, Zurich, Mascotte

February 22nd, Italy, Milan, Magnolia

February 24th, Austria, Vienna, Arena

February 25th, Germany, Munich, Strom

February 26th, Czech Republic, Prague, Café V Lese

February 27th, Hungary, Budapest, Durer Kert

March 1st, Poland, Warsaw, Hydrozagadka

March 2nd, Germany, Berlin, Heimathafen

March 4th, Denmark, Copenhagen, VEGA small hall

March 5th, Germany, Hamburg, Mojo

March 6th, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Paradiso

 

US/CAN TOUR 2022

*SOLD OUT* April 22nd, Dallas, TX, Club Dada *SOLD OUT*

April 23rd, Austin, TX, Empire Control Room & Garage

April 24th, Houston, TX, Studio @ Warehouse Live

April 26th, Orlando, FL, The Social

April 27th, Atlanta, GA, Terminal West

April 29th, Durham, NC, Motorco Music Hall

April 30th, Washington DC, 9:30 Club

May 1st, Philadelphia, PA, Foundry

May 3rd, Boston, MA, Paradise Rock Club

May 5th, New York, NY, Webster Hall

May 7th, Montreal, QC, Club Soda

May 9th, Toronto, ON, Danforth

May 10th, Cleveland, OH, Beachland Ballroom

May 11th, Columbus, OH, A&R Bar

May 13th, Detroit, MI, Shelter

May 14th, Chicago, IL, Thalia Hall

May 16th, Denver, CO, The Gothic Theatre

May 17th, Salt Lake City, UT, The Complex

*SOLD OUT* May 19th, Los Angeles, CA, The Fonda *SOLD OUT*

May 20th, Los Angeles, CA, The Fonda

May 21th, San Francisco, CA, The Fillmore 

 

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