Melting Palms - Noise Between the Shades (2022)

Melting Palms debuted two years ago with Abyss, but they hadn't caught my attention until this year's second release ever, Noise Between the Shades. And as the title of the album suggests, it is filled with many shades of pop music that are glued together by the noisy elements.

It is further confirmed by the band themselves, who say that "what unites us all is reverb". Baptized as "loudest group in Hamburg", they embrace the noise pop genre, and everything it includes, with fantastic enthusiasm. The lively and energetic melodies are what drives the album together with the very catchy guitar work. The two vocals go together with these vibes but there is some of the dreamy nostalgia in them as well. And everything is drown in subtle but omnipresent noisy atmosphere that makes it so attractive to the fans. But it doesn't mean that everything here is fast and pop-ish: in tracks like Ark, the artists give themselves some time to play around instrumental, appealing and extremely moody music (those violins here!).

The lyrics about "hope and misfortune, about melancholy and promise" bring the so appreciated contrast against the upbeat (most of the time) music with examples like the gloomy Crimson Eye: "Stuffed my chest/ with harsh regret/ Clouds drop rain upon the bed/ My mouth runs dry, all has been said". Sad and beautiful, like the whole album.

Noise Between the Shades costs 12 EUR.

Check: Ark

Country: Germany

Genre: noise pop

Label: La Pochette Surprise Records

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