Palm Fronds

The Double that you hear on "Palm Fronds" is very different than what founding members David Greenhill and Jeff McLeod originally conceived. The band began as a guitar/drum math-rock-cum-outre-blues duo replete with intricate time signatures, multiple song sections, and an overall sense of angular complexity. But the production, drum machines, and general vibe gave the sound a wonderfully overmodulated digital crunch, plenty of echo, broken electronics, and all sorts of whatsit thrown into the mix. Which is to say that all that songwriter stuff, when The Double finally let you hear it, owes a lot to a bunch of digital dub and experimental electronic types.