Atlanta’s Pallas are getting ready to release their self-titled debut album on May 26th via Drop Medium Records (Datenight, Pucker Up, Flower Girl) and today they are sharing “Render (Location 13).” The young Atlanta post-punk quartet have created a unique and challenging mini-album that shows the band’s strength is manipulated repetition and abrasive rhythmic shifts. Led by Danielle Brutto’s sharp and sinister howls, there’s a cold sense of calculated chaos throughout the band’s swerving punk movements, a sound that is tightly wound and volatility explosive. The band has been busy touring since they formed las year and have played shows together with Surface to Air Missive, Tonstartssbandht, LVL UP, Palm, Palberta, Gnarwhal, Pile, Warehouse, Jerry Paper, and more.
Pallas, a new four piece group from Atlanta, GA, plays music that sprawls out of the same scene that brought us bands like Warehouse and Red Sea. Their strange arrangements are complex yet rely on repetition, touching base with each member’s own artistic understandings of rhythm, noise, atmosphere – and how all of these things correlate together to bring a concrete sound unique and not easily comparable to one genre or band.
Singer Danielle Brutto, a trained painter having studied at The New School in NYC has the fortunate ability to fashion her unique, ghostly voice into swells and swerves that serve as abstract melodies upon guitarist Zane Durfree’s noisy burts, while bassist Valetina Tapia’s no-wave grooves guide each piece through prodigious 19 year-old drummer Decker D’alesio’s percussive fits and convulsions, landing on grooves and repetitions only out of luck rather than deliberation. All together their short, two minute songs have an open, cold atmosphere so often associated with post-punk, while the music itself is lively, exciting, and interesting.
Upcoming Shows:
7/22 – Atlanta, GA @ The EARL w/ Palm, Palberta & Mothers
Tracklisting
1. Render (Location 13)
2. Cast A Lion, Cured A Crow
3. Lavender Lout
4. Itchy Feet (Location 12)
5. Wide Line
6. Recoil
7. Down
Photo Credit: Ashby Blackburn
