Forest Fallows: Palisades
Mike Barnett and Alex Morton have an uncanny knack for creating purring psych-pop melodies. Palisades, the new album by their Forest Fallows project, is a collection of carefully crafted tracks with surprisingly off-kilter rhythms, creating a playful game of tension and release.
The album flows like a brook making its way through forests and meadows, speeding up and slowing down where boulders and smaller rocks are slowly smoothed over. Shout out to producer John McEntire (Stereolab, Tortoise, Modest Mouse) who made the transition of a lo-fi labor ...