Painted Palms – “Soft Hammer”
May 26, 2023
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Painted Palms are ’60s circus grinders in the Beach Boys’ baroque-pop basement, rapt in the contemporary indie inflection of bands like the Shins without resorting to cheesy upbeat anthemry. This is the kind of tune that, released within the mid-60s pop universe, would have inspired nerd-wrangling over the virtues of mono vs Stereo editions, while the non nerds simply have said, “turn it over,” over and over again.
