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Nicks and Grazes | Palm

Nicks and Grazes by Palm, released 14 October 2022 1. Touch and Go 2. Feathers 3. Parable Lickers 4. Eager Copy 5. Brill 6. On The Sly 7. And Chairs 8. Away Kit 9. Suffer Dragon 10. Mirror Mirror 11. Glen Beige 12. Tumbleboy 13. Nicks and Grazes Palm’s live performances are revered for their uncanny synchronicity; one gets the sense that, on psychic levels unseen, the members share an intuition unexplained by logic. But as the Philly-based band has grown up and moved on from the sweaty basement shows and self-booked tours of their formative years, the costs of maintaining such intense symbiosis started to build. “I used to think of Palm as an organism, a single coherent system, and at a younger point in our lives, that seemed like the ideal way to be a band,” Eve Alpert reflects. “I’m realizing now that it’s unrealistic, that for this band to grow we had to tend to ourselves as individuals – little pieces – who create the whole.” To confuse parts for the whole is inevitable with Pa…