#NEWMUSIC - PAINTED PALMS RELEASE BRAND NEW TRACK "HERE IT COMES" -

After the blog hype on their two tracks so far, leading them to their higher echelons of the Hype Machine chart, Painted Palms return today with the propulsive indie-pop suss of "Here It Comes", and you can stream the track here

You can hear the title track and another highlight, "Forever", here

The band's debut full length for Polyvinyl, "Forever", will be out January 13th in the UK.
Whether living four states away or four blocks away, Reese Donahue and Christopher Prudhomme have always used the internet – at first out of necessity, later out of preference – to collaborate on their songwriting.

Although the cousins grew up together in Lafayette, Louisiana, Donohue eventually moved to San Francisco, while Prudhomme stayed near New Orleans.

The newfound distance between them forced the pair to send song ideas back and forth via email, a virtual exchange that quickly spawned Painted Palms’ first release Canopy, which was discovered by Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes.

Tours with Of Montreal, Braids and STRFKR soon followed before Prudhomme moved out west to San Francisco, where Donahue still lived.
Yet, despite being in the same place for the first time in years, the duo continued writing songs apart from one another – completing individual ideas in isolation and piecing them together through the computer. 

And so, the songs that would eventually form their debut full-length Forever, came together as if the musicians were still separated by 2000 miles: Donahue sending a short looping beat and Prudhomme replying with a vocal melody before continuing to bounce the track back and forth between them until it was complete, this time focussing on creating songs with classic pop structures.

As if crafted by tailors so skilled you can never find the seams, the songs on Forever provide no hint of their patchwork beginnings. Instead, the album is permeated with blissfully buoyant tracks like ‘Here It Comes’ and ‘Forever’, which glide smoothly on a foundation of instantly memorable melodies.

Elsewhere, touches of Painted Palms’ most prominent influences – 60s psych pop paired with modern electronic production – are clearly evident, as on the dark and driving hooks that propel lead single ‘Spinning Signs’.

Don’t be fooled though. Underneath the sunny sonic exterior, the lyrics on Forever exist in a different place, with much of the focus centered on how it feels to be caught between the external world and one’s own thoughts.    

“Thinking about myself too much I can see that / I don’t know what to be” Sings Prudhomme on Forever’s title cut.

And in that moment a hint of irony is apparent, for as much as the members of Painted Palms want to get out of their own heads, they’re awfully good at writing songs that will immediately get stuck in yours.