Ghettoblaster Magazine offers review of Palm Ghosts’ Facades double album

Eddie Ugarte from Ghettoblaster Magazine had kind words for Palm Ghosts’ double album, Facades.

”This needs to be prefaced somehow but I’ll make it as clear as can be. The Nashville outfit Palm Ghosts has had a busy year. Since May, the band has been dropping its EP releases Façades 1- Escape, Façades 2 – Masks, Façades 3 – Channeling, and now its final Façades 4 – Decoder (Poptek/Sweet Cheetah). Palm Ghosts has been pretty stringent with its schedule and now has taken all four of its Eps, releasing them all today as a double album. All its releases are tied together, themes explored in variations from religion, cults, love, & loss but  Palm Ghosts remains unequivocally true to itself. While there are semblances of the band’s nostalgic feel, the group has evolved, keeping itself footed firmly within the present. But Palm Ghosts will never relinquish its disposition to nostalgia, which can be heard indirectly with ‘When We Were Young And Life Was Beautiful.’ It’s a journey, riding a keyboard wash, fingers nimbly stroking guitar notes, with dreamy vocals layered on top. It’s hypnotic, drenched in beauty. The group moves in a different direction altogether with the balladesque ‘Aftermath,’ led by piano and filled with airy backing vocals. Palm Ghosts is definitely onto something and the radiance shines brightly through its music.”

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