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[DID NOT ATTEND: September 12, 2023] Palm /Body Heat

Palm is a band I discovered by accident (they were opening for someone) and who I really bonded with.  Their music is weird–catchy (sometimes) obnoxious (sometimes) and always challenging (and yet somehow addictive).

They are ending their life as a band and they announced a show in Philly, which I quickly grabbed a ticket for.  It sold out and they added a second show two days earlier.

Since I had a ticket to the Thursday show, I didn’t feel the need to see the Tuesday show as well.  There are different opening acts for this show. 

Body Meat is an experimental musician whose music, despite sounding nothing like Palm, actually sounds a bit like Palm.  Pitchfork says:

The principles of rhythm are integral to Christopher Taylor’s work as Body Meat. In April, he released his latest and best full-length, Truck Music, a collection of raucous tracks combining Nigerian vocal samples, video-game plinks, deep grunts, high-pitched chirps, and all manner of drums, spliced together into unpredictable patterns and time signatures that may sound off-kilter to Western listeners. “People call them weird rhythms,” he tells me with an incredulous look on his face. “But in other cultures these rhythms are normal. If you listen to Middle Eastern music, they think of rhythm in a completely different way. It’s not weird. They just got more groove.”  His Auto-Tuned voice flips between stuttering trap cadences and croons that recall early James Blake.

Ada Band 2 I can’t find a single thing about.  Can’t even find them with a search online.