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Palehound
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Palehound’s new album Eye On The Bat charts something that divides you into “before” and “after” — the danger of fantasy, of heartbreak, and the pain of growth, how we can surprise ourselves. It’s a documentation of illusions shattering both yourself and others. A tangle of raw nerves coming undone among swelling, propulsive instrumentation, the biggest — and best — Palehound has sounded on record.
From Palehound’s critically acclaimed debut album Dry Food (2015) to A Place I’ll Always Go (2017), and Black Friday (2019) and then Doomin’ Sun (2021) by Bachelor (a collaborative project with Jay Som’s Melina Duterte), El Kempner’s songwriting has always been generous and personal, dispatches from a deep inner world. On Eye On The Bat, though, we meet Kempner anew: a guttural howl, white-hot and blistering catharsis, a feverish, visceral, and painful present.
As Palehound, Kempner’s guitar playing — their sinewy and off-kilter riffs — has always been front and center across the project’s discography, like smoke unfurling around anxiety-laden lyrics. It’s cerebral, trying to make sense of grief in a grocery store or an argument in a parking lot, plumbing the anxious depths of the interiors. Introspection, retrospection, whatever you’d like to call it, has threaded together Kempner’s songwriting, the bruising aftermath of trying times, since the very beginning. Here, though, we’re trapped in the immediate: witnessing the tiny details that build or break a relationship and the flood that comes after.