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Noise Between the Shades

by Melting Palms

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1.
here we sit asunder dazed and yet so clear dreaming of one another softly faced a single tear like suns burning and moonlight beams light our caves of wishes stay inside, here we can scream numb crowds and taming drifts holding deep our silent schemes some cease to exist withering flowers in gloomy dreams
2.
Nova 05:10
all my weeds die away growing trees lost deep in fray spread their heads for light a warming sun, right by your side tight beams meet tight moods Pour dryed poison in their roots filled my body with heat growing oaks reach growing seeds colder days, darker leaves, Mourning mountains, the forest bleeds bark of fears, branch of needs, Embracing arms of empathy Sprinkle the ground So frightened trees can climb To build up their homes under the sun of your mind
3.
Like a pepper on your tongue The rain now plays your marching song The moon is hanging tall and bright lifting so tender My life My hearts swelling like cascades of noise my life now is yelling fading away your voice The great longing is gone your skull wide open Chanting songs unsung lips tasted like blazing sin wrong strides across fake grins my hearts swelling, right path, right choice the moon now is yelling fading away your voice My life's swelling fading away your voice
4.
Ark 07:24
before the dawn takes us let light pour out of dying distrust enchanting our secrets so they can stay afloat beloved wayward witches take stars out with their boat until the morning is burning our nest We keep looking for bodies craving for rest Encounter our weakness so they drift afloat paint our secrets for protecting our boat
5.
Crimson Eye 03:52
someone lift my back i'm stuck the breast of death i start to suck fear evolves in psychich pain as friends might die in heavens vein reasons failed to justify i stare into the crimson eye burn my chest from all thats good get in touch, just cast a look Chorus: stuffed my chest with harsh regret clouds drop rain upon the bed my mouth runs dry all has been said I imitate someones touch and by the way I cared too much
6.
Tangerine 04:54
ike burning wings and frozen feet the fruit i harvest i cannot eat i steal the burden of disbelief i juggle with joy and water the seed build a mind of diamonds so bright holding it dear like your paralyzing eyes Refrain the sunrise swallowed The doves with its beam behold the tower of my long gone dreams the sunrise swallowed my long gone dreams
7.
Cocoon 03:18
8.
Nymph 04:42
Siren calls “Have no fear” Vanish in sound and disappear Endless sphere no one can see darkest thoughts which bother me I take the deepest breath I’d take (I could take) to see the truth down there I take the deepest breath I’d take (I could take) before I drown where I forsake Like divers we seek The darkness in the deep The blackness can't see Like blindfolded agony Graceful ballad bewitch my senses pull me down to the bottom of your sea Covered ears hear the oceans breeze I loose myself in this reverie
9.
Close my eyes Feel the wind imagine your breath Caressing my sins Stroke the heads Of growing grain in front of the sun Above orange plain The landscape dies into dust from nightmare I search the sun and she's not there you're not there
10.
Sheela 04:51
from high above words are less hard and tough floating upon foreign skies ignore the collapse and what dies dust of past regret trust in things you said leeches turning around into burning grounds soaked through cruel times leave it all behind imagine we could fly soaked through cruel times leave it all behind dreamed that I survived imagine we could fl
11.
Cyclone 04:39
long gone voices coral dyed your songs cease in the night past scars gone stars let it fall apart the drying heart life without breathing (i'm leaving) swallow without eating (you're needing) try to escape the storm to be safe embrace the demon blindfolded eyes carry with reason the truth that denies glowing hands running sand a brightened start an angels heart life without breathing (i'm leaving) swallow without eating (you're needing) try to escape the storm to be safe
12.
Aurora 05:15
Let me paint you the portrayal Scenario of diffidence However I intend to love You won’t assume what we dreamed of Passionate feelings overflow Push my blood down into my toes When my first tears begin to roll You construe safety into fault Trying to read my secret thoughts You cast a light, it’s dark and blurred If you don’t find yourself out there You’ve lost the path of our affair Maybe that kind of difference Throws our love out of balance Chorus: You’ve traded our sky for our sin Whisper a last goodbye into the wind The sky is bleeding Our hearts leach through As angels are eating Our dying truth

about

The www finds melting glaciers and psychedelic palm-readers when you search for melting palms. That will change. With their second album "Noise Between The Shades", the "loudest group in Hamburg", outstanding winners of the renowned “Krach und Getöse” award 2021, is about to establishing itself internationally as the powerfully euphoric band of the moment. For five years now, the musicians, more of a collective than a band, have been living out their sound dream in this psychedelic, shoegazing Kraut-Punk-Dreampop. What began in 2017 with Mike, Teresa and Johann led to musical and romantic entanglements, a first EP recorded in a construction trailer, their debut album "Abyss" (2020), concerts and endless sessions in their rehearsal basement on Borstelmannweg in the rather rundown area of Hamburg-Hamm, between animal shelters and street prostitution, to the current band line-up with Tim and Lukas.

"What unites us all is reverb," ​​say Melting Palms. "It doesn't matter which musical corner we come from, there has to be a lot of reverb and delay on the sound, that's our intersection." Open tuned guitars and a connection to boundless pop with the earthy stylistic devices of rock do the rest. The fact that Melting Palms not only played concerts with Sugar Candy Mountain, The Underground Youth and Wand despite the pandemic restrictions and have now also released their second album for Hamburg’s style-defining underground label La Pochette Surprise (Swutscher, Suck, Hawel/McPhail, Anna Wydra and many more) speaks volumes – and is no coincidence.

The five Melting Palms on three guitars, bass, drums and vocals have an extensive history in Hamburg's younger scene. Mike Krumhorn, the band's main singer and guitarist, also plays with their label mates Swutscher, and formerly also with the group Dunya. Teresa Koeberle, who, in addition to lead vocals and guitar, also contributes piano and synth to this album, playes the bass with the punk band new_project_666. She also is the graphic designer behind the band's artwork and visuals. Johann Wientjes, drums and ambient sounds, used to be the drummer with punk band The Dutts and Onion Joe and the Tarantula. (His father, by the way, is Markus E. Lipka from EISENVATER and Rossburger Report, who not only mastered the band's first EP, but also recorded multi-track guitars on both albums.) Tim Dajan Thiele, who occasionally plays his guitar with a violin bow, was also heard with the good old Glue Teeth. Bass player Lukas Schulz joined Melting Palms three years ago after his band Coral Tree broke up.

New beginnings and a keen sense of hope are motifs that shine poetically and motivatingly over this second album. "Noise Between The Shades" is an elemental force full of precise detours, as intoxicating as it is daring, with many surprising twists, both in terms of sound and lyrics. Melting Palms have a common goal, even a socio-political claim: humanism and idealism are a real concern for these five DIY utopians, one that embodies the notorious resilience of the Hamburg music scene in both attitude and aesthetics. The band's own musical signature sound emerges from this special togetherness, a patchwork of many creative energies, the beautiful but also painful noise between the shades that every life guards. A triumph.

credits

released August 26, 2022

Melting Palms are:
Teresa Koeberle - Guitar, Vocals
Mike Krumhorn - Vocals, Guitar
Johann Wientjes - Drums
Tim Dajan Thiele - Guitar
Lukas Schulz - Bass

Album also performed by:
Markus E. Lipka: Guitar (7)
Malin Stegmaier: Viola (4, 9, 12)
Beatrice Werder: Cello (4, 9, 12)
Severin Koeberle & Martin Herberg: Trumpet (9)
Sebastian Genzink: String-arrangement (9)

Music written by Melting Palms
Lyrics by Mike Krumhorn, Tim Dajan Thiele, Teresa Koeberle
Artwork by Teresa Koeberle & Rieke Spindeldreher
Layout by Teresa Koeberle
Production by Velvet Bein
Recorded by Sebastian Muxfeldt at Clouds Hill Studio, Hamburg
Mixing by Florian Sommer
Mastered by Flo Siller at Soundgarden Mastering

© 2022 Published by La Pochette Surprise / Community Publishing
℗ 2022 Released by La Pochette Surprise Records

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