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Until Spring

by Wild Palms

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1.
Drawn In Light 04:03
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2.
Caretaker 05:08
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3.
Delight In Temptation 03:45
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4.
Pale Fire 06:30
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5.
LHC 06:13
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6.
Carnations 04:48
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Swirling Shards 03:55
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The (Never-Ceasing-Ever-Increasing) Cavalcade 05:02
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9.
To The Lighthouse 05:08
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10.
Not Wing Clippers 14:19
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Wild Palm'S debut ‘Until Spring’ was released 7th March 2011. Produced by Gareth Jones (Grizzly Bear/ Depeche Mode/ These New Puritans).

Comprised of charismatically roguish front man and one time teenage garage MC, Lou Hill, Chatham resident and Billy Childish worshipping guitarist, Darrel Hawkins, demon drummer James Parish and suitably elegant bass player Gareth Jones, the quartet – now quintet - coalesced out of a group of like-minded music fans in Southgate, North London around 2007.

First appearing as Ex-Lion Tamers and feeding on a diet of Beefheart, The Fall, Can, The Bunnymen and Wire they emerged in April 2008 as a ferocious, four-headed beast melding deconstructed guitar lines and Parish’s thundering rhythms to Hill’s staccato wordplay. “I wanted to get the best people I could,” remembers Hill. “All this new stuff was coming out and we never knew what to grip onto, we were just playing, then all of a sudden everything just started working. Something that was clearly ours started coming and it felt like we had ownership over it.”

Key in the consideration of Wild Palms is their dramatic evolution and restless desire, collectively, to keep pushing forward. As the band have moved away from their initial inspirations they have sublimated the more obtuse angles of their nature within a warmer, more expansive soundscape. While they can still crackle with an underlying menace, ‘Until Spring’ finds something more amorphous about them, serene, sublime even! In the space of a year the band have released sharp-shock debut ‘Over Time’, moving through the melancholic washes of the transitionary ‘Deep Dive’ (their first OLI single) before arriving at this autumn’s most fully realised sound in the form of the ‘To The Lighthouse’/ ‘Draw In Light’ 10”, a galvinising mix of stoicism and bliss.

From widescreen opener ‘Draw In Light’ and ‘Pale Fire’s ghostly coda to the propulsive roar of ‘Carnations’ and the gentle strings of ‘LHC’, ‘Until Spring’ is by turns heart stopping, heart broken, unsettling and uplifting. “We never really talked about it,” notes Hawkins, “but for me, I wanted to make something beautiful that would surpass everything around me, that was bigger than myself.”

Quite literally using the studio to supplement the shuddering dynamics of their live performance (the band utilised the Biffa bins out back for percussion and even mic’ed up the water tank), Wild Palms distilled all the ideas, sidesteps and progressions of the last two years into one glorious suite of songs.

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released March 7, 2011

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Enfield boys Lou Hill, Gareth Jones and James Parish grew up together and formed an early incarnation of the band, Lou then met Darrell Hawkins whilst studying at Brighton University and completed the line-up. After recording their acclaimed, post-punk leaning debut Until Spring, they returned with Live Together, Each Other, produced by Liam Howe, featuring the tracks Ennio and Temper Gold ... more

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