Description
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.
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.
Reissued in 3 versions:
200 copies: White on 180g marbled black
200 copies: Black on 180g marbled white
100 copies: Black on 180g
