REVIEWS FOR 'I START FIRES / TWILIGHT OF A STAR' 7"- PALM SPRINGS

REVIEWS FOR 'NO HURT LIKE A BROKEN HURT' LP - PALM SPRINGS

REVIEWS FOR 'SOTLY TO FALLEN / SENSE OF WONDER' 7"- PALM SPRINGS

REVIEWS FOR 'ECHO OF ME / AFTER HONEY' 7"- PALM SPRINGS

REVIEWS FOR 'TENDER REMAINS / FALL MORNING' 7"- PALM SPRINGS

 

 

Single Of The Month

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

 

"I Start Fires is the sound of a band flexing their musical muscles, and is the most ambitious and self-confident release to date of this truly individual and independent of bands"

ROUGH TRADE RECORDS - LONDON

 

"The sound of someones heart breaking committed to vinyl, complete with elaborate orchestration, there won't be a dry eye in the house. Timeless pop, and a record to cherish"

NORMAN RECORDS - LEEDS

 

"Mercury Rev and Earlies like acoustic instrumentation, shot through with a hefty dose of Southern US country twang. Absolutely cannot wait for the new album"

THE SOURCE MAGAZINE - BRIGHTON

 

"The beautiful arrangements, warm the heart and recall the bygone era of the late, great Pale Fountains" 9/10

TATAPOUM

 

"A deliriously happy/sad extravaganza of prickling perfect pop, dutifully adorned with a fetching and welcoming glow that's cut to the bone with the unfailing tread of optimism against adversity. One minute crest fallen and abandoned, the next euphoric and rising high, this fulsomely colourful carnival of sound touches, teases and tears away at your resistance to radiate a candy coated elegance. Breathless stuff"

LOSING TODAY

 

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Number Two - Best Albums Of 2006

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

 

"Palm Springs may well have created, and released through their label Random Acts Of Vinyl, the chamber pop album of the year. 'No Hurt Like A Broken Heart' is an immediate pleasure, a record that demands and rewards your full attention and is one of the finest debuts we've heard this year" 8/10

NO RIPCORD

 

"Palm Springs are two visionary troubadours whose debut album is an outstanding, flowing, mesmerizing experience that transports you somewhere else. It is an enchanting, seamlessly hypnotic, musical memoir, the foundations of which are fantastically diverse and inventive uses of instrumentation, alongside beautifully observed and articulated lyrics" 8/10

IS THIS MUSIC? MAGAZINE - GLASGOW

 

Album of the Month

MR DEAD AND MRS FREE - BERLIN

 

"Ambitious lo-fi country and dreamy laid-back ambience, with moments of melancholic beauty"

ROCK'N'REEL

 

"No Hurt Like A Broken Heart is an album that creaks with heartache and sadness, an at times painfully honest and intense affair that slowly gets under your skin, gradually winning you over. A stark, beautiful record, Palm Springs have delivered a debut full of desolate gorgeousness and swooning heartache"

UK MUSIC REVIEW

 

"Folk that caresses the ears and melts the heart. Palm Springs deliver the panacea for musical happiness"

LP MAGAZINE

 

"Brilliant debut from Brighton tunesmiths. Shards of longing stabbing an acoustic heart" - Recommended Release

ROUNDER RECORDS - BRIGHTON

 

"The ten tracks of gentle, ethereal chamber-folk spread themselves over my conscious like a shadowy dream, all half-light echoes and emotional memories. My focus enthralled, all around me, motionless. A thing of wonder and no less"

THE SOURCE MAGAZINE - BRIGHTON

 

"More lush, melancholic, painful beauty from Brighton's Palm Springs, whose 7"s have been gaining them a worldwide reputation. The LP is exactly what we could have hoped for, more of their exquisitly delicate, sparsely quiet, honest pop spread out over the course of an LP. Just great"

ROUGHT TRADE RECORDS - LONDON

 

"Twinkling, pulsating melancholy of yearning vocals over lush orchestration on the almost perfect ten tracks of this really rather special album" 9/10

NORMAN RECODS - LEEDS

 

"An album that demands your full attention to appreciate the sophisticated orchestrations and melodies, from a most promising English duo" 9/10

TATAPOUM

 

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Number Two - Best 45s 2006

WOLFGANG DOEBELING

 

Palm Springs from Brighton are producing just one 7" a summer, and each one a gem. Softly To Fallen is the third coup on 45 and, like its predecessors Tender Remains and Echo Of Me is elaborated down to the last detail of the arrangement, to the superb dramaturgy of the song's circuitry, to the diaphanous capillary of the instrumentation. Chamber pop, mellow and bittersweet.

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

 

Palm Springs deliver melancholic and simply glorious acoustic music, so that you feel almost transported to somewhere quite magical

STRAIGHT NO CHASER MAGAZINE

 

Two more songs that some other British bands might kill for. You can almost hear the songs breathing, so much so that you are concerned about imprisoning them again in the record sleeve.

CONNAISSEUR MUSIC

 

Palm Springs return with their third limited single and they just seem to get better and better. Softly To Fallen weaves its way in with a beautiful combination of guitar and piano, and is a slow building burner. Wonderful stuff and highly tipped.

ROUGH TRADE SHOP - LONDON

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A gorgeous, dramatic slowy, embellished with subtle keyboards and strings and topped with melancholic vocals

PICCADILY RECORDS MANCHESTER

 

A gently swelling lament, threading timid melancholia through plaintive tuning pegs, until the twisting turns everything up to epic proportions

THE SOURCE MAGAZINE - BRIGHTON

 

Number one single, Editors Playlist December 2005

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE - MUNICH

 

Number four single, Best Singles 2005

WOLFGANG DOEBELING, RADIO EINS - BERLIN

 

Second release from the fantastic Brighton based Palm Springs on their own Random Acts of Vinyl label. The wonderful acoustic sense and gorgeous melodies add up to something quite special here. Very limited and very good, just right for the leaves turning.

ROUGH TRADE RECORDS - LONDON

 

A record where the vocals remind of AR Kane, whilst the music reminds of the Tindersticks but with a more subdued feeling. Chiming guitars, lightly brushed drums, lovely viola, and a pretty acoustic sense add up to something pretty good.

NORMAN RECORDS - LEEDS

 

Brighton's finest melodious, hush-core ensemble return

ROUNDER RECORDS - BRIGHTON

 

Simply lovely

MR DEAD AND MRS FREE RECORDS - BERLIN

 

Palm Springs extract the heartache from the ilk of Bacharach, Philly Soul and 70's west coast dream-pop for a more luxurious kind of angst

TOM SHERIFF - BRIGHTON

 

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A lovely, extremely delicate record, beautiful strings and quiet and textural boy/girl vocals reminding of the cinematic stylings of the Tindersticks.

NORMAN RECORDS - LEEDS

 

The rasping fragile vocals and lush bedroom orchestrations make a sound similar in feel to The Clientele or Galaxie 500. This is the soundtrack of acoustic melancholia.

ROUGH TRADE RECORDS - LONDON

 

Eerily brooding tunes and etheral vocals from the land of the Velvet Underground.

IS THIS MUSIC? MAGAZINE - GLASGOW

 

Sends a shiver down the spine like The Delgados at their most acoustic and melancholic.

THE SOURCE MAGAZINE - BRIGHTON

 

Lush, dreamy, spacey pop with a heavy heart. Absolutely stunning!

THE GILDED PALACE OF SIN - BRIGHTON

 

If Brighton's Palm Springs played any quieter there'd be nothing on the vinyl. Tender Remains is a gently sung lullaby a la 90's Sparklehorse smattered with hints of a bung-nosed Arab Strap and Fall Morning layers the darker side of country with warm slide guitar. There's a rare ability in forming beauty from something tragic, and this priceless dose of melancholy has it in droves.

THE FLY MAGAZINE - LONDON

 

You need this in your life!

ROUNDER RECORDS - BRIGHTON

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