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Palberta5000

by Palberta

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jumesluke A beauty in candor. People who probably never intended to make music, be in a band, or even be cool, are now the greatest asset that we have for good vibes, honesty, & understanding. Favorite Track: The Way that you Do Favorite track: The Way That You Do.
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albinobone Standing here in my kitchen after the kids have gone to bed, I find myself looking through the fridge and dancing (?) to Palberta. It's private dancing, the type no one wants to see, but it feels good to me. It's a strange, sinewy, thing. It's expressive, but not meant for public consumption. The most angular, funkless dancing you'll ever do, but you do it anyway, like you're David Byrne, it's 1983, and you've got a big new suit.
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Bohemian Square This trio is the center of an unlikely Venn diagram of several other trios: the Minutemen, Sleater-Kinney, & the Haden triplets. Three is the magic number?
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No Way 02:07
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Big Bad Want 03:44
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Never to Go 01:19
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The Cow 01:41
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In Again 01:36
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Hey ! 01:32
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Red Antz 01:56
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Summer Sun 01:29
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Eggs n' Bac' 01:36
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Corner Store 02:31
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I'm Z'done 00:18
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About 'Plaberta5000'

“While punk music was our first love, pop music has become our fixation. Throughout the making of 'Palberta5000,' we were focused on making music that people could not only sing along to but get stuck in their heads... that and attempting to make songs longer than 50 seconds...While our melodies have gotten more melodic and our singing less harsh, we haven’t strayed too far from who Palberta is, defiantly Palberta. And no one will shape us to be otherwise.” - Palberta

Two years removed from their triumphant 2018 LP Roach Going Down, which Pitchfork described as "a leap to another level" from the beloved NYC trio, Palberta are returning to deliver their clear-eyed fifth album, 'Palberta5000,' a collection of adventurous, hyper-melodic songs that will excite their devoted following while welcoming new fans along for the ride. While long heralded as one of the most original and idiosyncratic bands in the East Coast DIY scene, earning regular comparisons to ESG, Captain Beefheart (Pitchfork) and CAN (FADER), on 'Palberta5000,' Ani Ivry-Block, Lily Konigsberg, and Nina Ryser max out traditional pop forms—creating hits that catch in listeners’ brains while blowing the genre out into lush, kinetic extensions that morph into absurdist outros and haptic breakdowns—to create their own hardcore style of popular music. In doing so, they have made their most accessible album by a far measure—one that is bursting at the seams with vocal hooks and exuberant playing.

'Palberta5000' was recorded with Matt Labozza (PALM, Shimmer), whose Peekskill, New York, studio is located in the original home and family lamp-store of Paul Reuben (Pee Wee Herman). Fueled by carrots, celery, radishes, and peanut-butter-and-jelly bagels, they diligently tracked 'Palberta5000’s well-rehearsed songs in four days, never putting down more than three takes. Labozza’s recording and mix capture the band’s rollicking instrumentation and vocal precision.

The first single, “Before I Got Here,” features a charging and emotionally chaotic intro verse—building to the frantic ear-worm lyrics “if you want to talk about it / then we can talk about it / I’m just so sick about it / don’t blame me”—that stops on a dime for a three-part vocal harmony breakdown, then seamlessly rushes off again. The song conveys the raw emotions that can accompany letting someone into your life before pumping the brakes and settling into a hypnotic krout-surf outro, garnished with horns from Matt Norman that reinforce and swell the melody.

“High speed, fast track, slow prose.” 'Palberta5000' punctuates its jagged edges with ebullient cries of “Hey!” and rounds its corners with angelic harmonies, while marching-band snares propel the album forward with a metronomic intensity that belies the sixteen tracks’ diverse time signatures and fevered pacing. Hardcore fans will recognize the band’s live staple “Corner Store,” whose heart-melting harmonies layer over irresistible croons of “I meet you anywhere you are”—a promise kept by an album that meets listeners where they are. “Big Bad Want,” another notable piece from the band’s pre-COVID sets, is Palberta’s version of fast punk, with a zig-zag bassline and a call-and-response nursery-rhyme chorus that returns for the song’s outro, stretching defiantly past the three-minute mark with the repeated mantra “Yeah (yeah) I can’t pretend what I want.”

Although Palberta have toyed with repetition and longer song structures on past recordings, 'Palberta5000' masterfully digs into a groove and transforms repeated phrases with a cult-like frenzy to hypnotic effect. On their slow waltz, “The Way That You Do,” and the enchanting “Red Antz,” Palberta bring the tempo down for lavish slow jams only hinted at on past efforts like Bye Bye Berta’s “Why Didn’t I.” Such tracks add a variation to 'Palberta5000’s well thought-out song cycle and contribute to a full album experience that will leave listeners breathless. In the fitful sleeper “Cow,” Palberta sing, “I will be there with my hand on your chest / I feel your rumbling internal mess.” In a time of exhausting disappointment, 'Palberta5000' is an album that sees our internal and external messes, openly displays its fragile places, and acts as an energetic complement to the movement for positive change.

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released January 22, 2021

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