Palomar

I had heard a great track called “How to Beat Dementia” from the band Palomar on WOXY the other day. This track isn’t available on the site but a number of other ones are on their MySpace. Excuse me, I meant on MyDisgrace - sure am slipping up in my old age…

Interesting thing about the band: they seem to be naming all their releases with their name plus a roman numeral… so you’ve got Palomar II, III. They’ve also got a funny sense of humor as evidenced by their press photos and the video for Albacore. Man, anyone who names a song after a tuna is all right in my book.

The music itself - I’m not going to attempt to make yet another leap to That Dog, but there are a few similarities. Bit of Rilo Kiley perhaps. For the most part they’ve got great melodies going over jumpy indie pop that’s immediately likeable. That one track I heard - for some reason I had mentally filed it away under “shoe-gaze”. But if you listen to any of their Myspace tracks it’s definitely more poppy.

Their latest release for the Brooklyn band is out on Misra (who they recently signed with - incidentally I think Absolutely Kosher and Misra merged awhile ago!) and is called “All Things, Forests”. Oh, but no roman numerals for this album…

Listen:
Our Haunt
Palomar on Myspace

On Itunes:
Palomar 3.5 EP
Palomar III - Revenge of Palomar
Palomar II

Watch:
Albacore

Visit:
Palomar website

by Palebear