palmeras negras sign for Aloud
Listen to “si recordara”, the first preview single from their new album, released exclusively by Mondosonoro:
When they emerged in mid-2022, palmeras negras defined themselves as post-everything. An EP, “ya no queda nada dónde lo dejé” (Desorden Sonoro, 2022), which made it clear that for them labels were limits to be stressed, to be pushed to such a point that they could be broken and intermixed with others. Three songs that led them to open for Monte Terror, to be part of the lineup at last year’s Happy Moy Fest with Viva Belgrado, and to record a new album that will be published by Aloud Music.
Because palmeras negras is the new signing of Aloud Music. Next Friday, March 22, we will be able to hear its first preview, “si recordara” A song makes us think about the value of words and how they understand post-rock. Or whatever arises, because as you listen to it you perceive traces of other styles that they themselves have known how to condense, since the album has been recorded, produced and mixed by Jesús Barrau himself, voice, guitar and synthesizers of the band.
“si recordara” is accompanied by a video clip created by Rubén Carrillo and Cristina Meca, two visual creators who have managed to connect perfectly with the aesthetics of palmeras negras
palmeras negras (always using lowercase) are a quintet from Almería. Some of us knew them as a trio, since that was how they recorded their first EP Jesús Barrau (vocals, guitar and synthesizers), Diego García (bass and screams) and Jesús Torres (guitar). But it didn’t take them long to become a quartet, incorporating Víctor Gutiérrez on drums, as they needed more thinking heads and executing hands for a sound that never stopped growing. Then and now, because in post-production the most enriching additions always emerge.
So much so that they have gone from reminding us of shoegaze and emo to bringing to mind elements that make us think of doomgaze and slowcore. Groups like Low, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, American Football or Black Country, New Road they are there, to wink at you with some of their arrangements.
The vinyl edition will be co-released by our friends Synth Vicious.
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