"... After supporting 65Days, the band now boast the addition of a new bass player and guitarist and if anything, it’s made their swirling, key board driven music even more angry and progressive. So how are Palmstruck so different from a band that already had this particular reviewer wrapped around their finger ? Well mark two are bigger and stronger but just as restrained. Whilst this could in anyone else’s less capable hands end up as a noodling wig out, Palmstruck have created a raft of refined, orchestrated movements punctuated by lightening bolts of guitars which shriek like lost children singing ghostly Radiohead songs. The bass lines rumble with a shuddering menace yet the keyboards are creating a different twist on the goodold ‘strings’ settings, as well as burbling out various passages of what sounds like classical-versus-nu-rave. It is all very much an experiment and a journey in sound, whilst Rigg only occasionally adds his own cascades of vocals, all of which could easily put Jimmy Goodwin to shame. Palmstruck have never really been away, but without knowing it they’ve experienced what may well be a rebirth – all the more incredible given that previously it was almost impossible to think that they could get any better." JA, www.manchestermusic.co.uk
"Building from a foundation of solid bass and piano, they throw on layers of crashing noise, wayward guitars and interestingly understated vocals to make something that's part shoegaze revival, part prog, but relentlessly powerful... pretty unrelated to anything else going on in Manchester right now." Cath Aubergine, www.manchestermusic.co.uk
"Dance-inducing drumbeats, catchy riffs and memorable vocal work." www.highvoltage.org.uk
"An engrossing, fragmented narrative ... Throughout it all the band doesn't say a word between songs. They don't have to." Harry's Bar
"Palmstruck are constructing new landscapes that include the simplest of elements via the deep displays of piano and driving basslines and the cleverly layered build of cathedral like structures. This is one place and time where you could expect an opus on an epic scale that's absolutely hummable. Ones to watch." www.manchestermusic.co.uk
"These guys play music that stretches the imagination and bravely breaks the 'Manchester mould', yet is enticing and skillful enough to avoid alienation." www.tcsrockbar.com us at the 65 days gigvideo for motion capture
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