{"id":39728,"date":"2023-10-30T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39728"},"modified":"2023-10-28T07:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T11:30:30","slug":"palm-ghosts-challenge-the-systems-assessment-of-potential-with-blistering-automatic-for-the-modern-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39728","title":{"rendered":"Palm Ghosts challenge the system&#8217;s assessment of potential with blistering \u2018Automatic For The Modern Age\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nashville, Tennessee&#8217;s Palm Ghosts recently announced the release of their forthcoming album,\u00a0\u2018I Love You, Burn In Hell,\u2019 via a partnership between Sweet Cheetah Records,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gmail.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b619dad5f286913825a10a10f&amp;id=22e30dede4&amp;e=3542496417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Poptek Records<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gmail.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b619dad5f286913825a10a10f&amp;id=1432bcc65a&amp;e=3542496417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sell The Heart Records<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gmail.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b619dad5f286913825a10a10f&amp;id=afe4f19adc&amp;e=3542496417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Engineer Records<\/a>\u00a0(EU\/UK). The album will be out\u00a0on November 10.<br><br>The album&#8217;s second single, &#8220;<em>Automatic For The Modern Age, a song about &#8220;being told who you are in today\u2019s world and trying to buck any system\u2019s assessment of your potential,\u201d<\/em> says vocalist\/bassist Joseph Lekkas. Check out the\u00a0video\u00a0for <em>Automatic For The Modern Age<\/em> via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QhmSDXH2VfQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Palm Ghosts deliver the sound of an &#8217;80s prom in a war zone.\u00a0As far from the honky-tonks and pedal taverns of their adopted city as one can get, this is a trio who are clearly more at home in rainy Manchester or blustery Berlin, as they produce their amalgam of cinematic dream pop and new wave with brooding post punk.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, they released\u00a0\u2018Architecture,\u2019 a dark pop record with male\/ female vocals and their first offering echoing the sound of 4AD and Factory Records\u2019 brand of post punk. Since then, they have built upon that release with a steady stream of songs invigorating the modern era with the &#8217;80s youth ethos, and paying homage to\u00a0idols like New Order, The Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen and Peter Gabriel to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the\u00a0worldwide pandemic, Palm Ghosts recorded and released\u00a0\u2018Lifeboat Candidate\u2019\u00a0to critical acclaim. The record was a giant ear worm on unrest, isolation, and frustration influenced by the jagged art punk of Gang of Four and Wire.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band\u2019s next offering,\u00a0\u2018The Lost Frequency,\u2019 felt more whimsical and celebratory. More nostalgic and less like a war . . . more like a prom. However, the lyrics still bring confrontation to the forefront, and remind us that normalcy is still devastating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Post Preservation\u2019\u00a0showed yet another side of Palm Ghosts. There were songs about love with almost a hint of optimism. If you squint your eyes, a faint light through the cracks, but with plenty of darkness and discontent for balance.\u00a0 Like the soundtrack to a long-lost John Hughes film,\u00a0\u2018Post Preservation\u2019\u00a0twinkles with warm nostalgia for a world that no longer exists, except for in our hearts and minds.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their forthcoming offering,\u00a0\u2018I Love You, Burn in Hell,\u2019 is another slab of discontent and disillusionment. Melodic songs about betrayal, exploitation and the hopeless task of navigating the modern world, wrapped up in catchy melodies and propulsive rhythms. The world is ending, for god\u2019s sake. Get on the dance floor!<br><br>The album was recorded, mixed and produced by Joseph Lekkas at Greenland Studios in Nashville and mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Mastering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nashville, Tennessee&#8217;s Palm Ghosts recently announced the release of their forthcoming album,\u00a0\u2018I Love You, Burn In Hell,\u2019 via a partnership between Sweet Cheetah Records,\u00a0Poptek Records,\u00a0Sell <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39728\" title=\"Palm Ghosts challenge the system&#8217;s assessment of potential with blistering \u2018Automatic For The Modern Age\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[22,23,25,28,29,30,1907],"tags":[11406,11408,11407,9864,1245],"class_list":["post-39728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-live","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","category-news","tag-automatic-for-the-modern-age","tag-burn-in-hell","tag-i-love-you","tag-palm-ghosts","tag-tour-dates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/64B72BC0-A88E-4969-ADD2-D69B3B642240.jpeg?fit=1237%2C1026&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-akM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33296,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33296","url_meta":{"origin":39728,"position":0},"title":"Dead Ghosts share video for \u2018Drugstore Supplies\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"January 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Canadian garage rockers Dead Ghosts have shared the music video for the\u00a0track, Drugstore Supplies. 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