Dark Palms

Dark Palms is a post-punk band from Olympia, WA that play the most aggressive music the genre has to offer. Their debut single "Ghost Horse" is a bass heavy package of this. It starts off with a kick and then unloads into a full assault of heavy hitting jams. The band sounds like a faster and heavier Christian Death or Spaceman 3. The band isn't all about the heaviness of the genre though, as the song employs a generous amount of fuzz to the song. It's exactly what you'd want out of a debut single from a post-rock band; it shows a well-written post-punk song encapsulating all your favorite parts of the genre, and then some. - Noisey

There's nothing more goth than visual-heavy, chilling post-punk. Such is the sound of Olympia, Washington's Dark Palms. - FUSE TV

CLASSIC GOTHIC ROCK MEETS INDIE POP ON THIS NEW BAND'S DEBUT SINGLE.
Plumbing the depths of early Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Joy Division, Olympia, Washington band Dark Palms bring a welcome gothic tinge to indie pop, a little garish darkness to an often rigid style of music. Not too shabby for a band that only formed earlier this year.

The band will be releasing their debut single “Ghost Horse” next week, but we’d like to shine a spotlight on its b-side “Locket”, a driving, murky rocker that’s as loud as it is introspective. Led by singer Laurence Goldenstar’s deep baritone voice, it’s somber and thunderous at the same time. - PopMatters

Introducing Olympia, Washington’s Dark Palms who presents the world premiere of their self-made video for the single “Ghost Horse” available on 7” from Rock Therapy Records. The new band from Timothy Grisham formerly of Happy Noose finds him in the company of Fabulous Downey Brothers’ Kenrick Ward on drums, Roger Landberg III on bass duties, with The Shidt’s Laurence Goldenstar supplying additional vocals. Dark Palms cast a long northwest shadow of trees and other forces of nature governed by ghost animal instincts and thrashing dark cloaked chords that carry out distorted and deranged power chord hooks that serenade the surrounding rural splendor.

Filmed on location in Satsop, Washington on Roger from the band’s family property that provides everything from valleys, forests, and a river that let’s the Dark Palms ballad of the haunted horseman gallop anywhere it pleases. The group presents their sound in a confetti speckled natural habitat in a sound that sits nestled at home with Timothy and company’s formal peers like Jen Grady from You Are Plural, Jon Hanna of Broken Water, Derek M. Johnson, Mars Lindgren, Romanteek’s Matt Buscher, Full Moon Radio’s Jessie Jackson, and more. The attitude and latitude of different existences, different feelings, and deviated planes of understanding dash away the corrosive connections while the high geared guitars gnash their metal strings against the angst and anger that exists in the gulf of misunderstandings. Not your every day performance video, the off-the-grid setting provides an unlikely and otherworldly setting for Dark Palms’ sound that shakes of the unnecessary attachments and lets out a brooding cathartic call to the wild world in an expansive surrounding. Read our interview with Timothy Grisham after the video premiere where we chronicle the closure of Happy Noose, to the new beginnings of Dark Palms, and more.

interview via link.... - Impose Magazine

Oh, Dark Palms, where have you been all my life? Their new single, “Ghost Horse, is a post-punk, fuzzed-out trip into pure American noir. I’m officially very excited for Dark Palms’ forthcoming debut album, Hoxbar Ghost Town on Rock Therapy Records.

Formed by Timothy Grisham after the end of his group Happy Noose, Dark Palms are reaching for a heavy but poppier style of post-punk and if “Ghost Horse” and the B-side “Locket” are any indication it should be a doozy of an album.

Something about “Ghost Horse” keeps giving me a Blue Velvet kind of vibe. I wasn’t surprised to learn that Grisham is a David Lynch fan, because the song comes straight out of weird America, albeit with a dash of Samhain muscle.

With Grisham on guitars, Kenrick Ward on drums, Roger Landberg III on bass, and Laurence Goldenstar on vocals, Dark Palms is a tight and heavy unit that sounds like they’ve been together for years, though in actuality the band is only a few months old. The members have all served in other indie bands and seem to have no shortage of talent.

You can hear “Ghost Horse” over at Noisey and “Locket” at Popmatters.

I think you’ll see these two tracks show a pretty good range and that Dark Palms will likely appeal to many different tastes. Certainly, fans of Coliseum, Titus Andronicus, and early Afghan Whigs should be first in line to embrace these guys. - PopShifter

Olympia’s Dark Palms share their own brand of heavy post-punk on their official debut single “Ghost Horse” via Noisey. Formed in the early months of 2015 by Timothy Grisham (Happy Noose), the band pick-up where Grisham’s former project left off, scraping the depths of post-punk’s darkest corners, though Dark Palms are doing things decidedly heavier.

The quartet, comprised of Grisham (guitars), Kenrick Ward (drums), Roger Landberg III (bass), and Laurence Goldenstar (vocals) have cut their teeth in the local punk scene, collectively having played in Happy Noose, The Revlons, Fabulous Downey Brothers, The Shidt and more but Dark Palms is a fresh beginning, an awakening of a dark and uncompromising sound. Rock Therapy Records is set to release the band’s debut “Ghost Horse b/w Locket” 7-inch on August 4 (pre-orders are now available).

Since their formation earlier this year, Dark Palms have been busy, writing, recording, and playing a constant barrage of shows throughout the Pacific Northwest. With a jam packed summer schedule and the band’s upcoming full length debut set for release later this year, Dark Palms aren’t looking to slow down anytime soon. Noisey premiered the band’s first single “Ghost Horse,” calling their proto-punk influenced post-punk, “the most aggressive music the genre has to offer” before comparing their ferocious goth tinged sound to “a faster and heavier Christian Death or Spaceman 3. The band isn’t all about the heaviness of the genre though, as the song employs a generous amount of fuzz to the song” before concluding “it shows a well-written post-punk song encapsulating all your favorite parts of the genre, and then some”. Speaking about the song, Dark Palms’ Grisham added, “”Ghost Horse” is a lot more driving and heavy than some of my previous songwriting – at times it feels a bit relentless in its push. It is about the flood of thoughts, both direct and random that enter your mind when you are facing your final moments. There is desperation, anger, pleading and closure all tumbling around at the same time.” - Ghettoblaster

Dark Palms music is a barbaric, pulsing, yet nuanced and nimble band based out of Olympia. The type of band that proves that modern post-punk sounds can still hold pop sensibilities - that musically you can still see what's in your rear view while looking forward. Dark Palms was founded by songwriter/guitarist Timothy Grisham (Happy Noose, Aires and Graces, The Revlons, etc.) immediately following the dissolution of his previous group Happy Noose. Recorded with Matt Bruscher at Neanderhall Studios in Olympia, Dark Palms' digital single "Hoxbar Outcasts" points toward the intersection of heavy, fuzz covered rock and large pop sensibilities that Grisham was aiming for. Where Happy Noose tended to wade in the goth/post-punk waters, Dark Palms is a decidedly different beast. With bigger hooks, more fuzz and less of the gothic touchstones Dark Palms is an immediately recognizable sound. The band is currently working on finishing tracks for their debut album, Hoxbar Ghost Town, at Neanderhall. - Weekly Volcano

Olympia's Dark Palms are excited to share their own brand of heavy post-punk on their official debut single "Ghost Horse" via Noisey. Rock Therapy Records is set to release the band's debut "Ghost Horse b/w Locket" 7" on August 4th (pre-orders are now available).

Speaking about the song, Dark Palms' Timothy Grisham added, ""Ghost Horse" is a lot more driving and heavy than some of my previous songwriting - at times it feels a bit relentless in its push. It is about the flood of thoughts, both direct and random that enter your mind when you are facing your final moments. There is desperation, anger, pleading and closure all tumbling around at the same time." - Prelude Press

Olympia’s Dark Palms are sharing their own brand of eclectic goth pop and post-punk on their latest single “Locket” (listen below). Formed in the early months of 2015 by Timothy Grisham (Happy Noose), the band pick-up where Grisham’s former project left off, scraping the depths of post-punk’s darkest corners, though Dark Palms are doing things decidedly heavier. Things aren’t all noise and gloom though, as “Locket,” the b-side to the band’s debut single proves, there’s a degree of gothic romanticism just beneath Dark Palms’ shadowy exterior. The quartet, comprised of Grisham (guitars), Kenrick Ward (drums), Roger Landberg III (bass), and Laurence Goldenstar(vocals) have cut their teeth in the local punk scene, collectively having played in Happy Noose, The Revlons, Fabulous Downey Brothers, The Shidt and more but Dark Palms is a fresh beginning, an awakening of a dark and uncompromising sound. Rock Therapy Records is set to release the band’s debut “Ghost Horse b/w Locket” 7″ on August 4th (pre-orders are now available). Since their formation earlier this year, Dark Palms have been busy, writing, recording, and playing a constant barrage of shows throughout the Pacific Northwest. With a jam packed summer schedule and the band’s upcoming full length debut set for release later this year, Dark Palms aren’t looking to slow down anytime soon.

PopMatters premiered the singles brooding b-side, “Locket,” claiming, “Plumbing the depths of early Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Joy Division, Olympia, Washington band Dark Palms bring a welcome gothic tinge to indie pop, a little garish darkness to an often rigid style of music. Not too shabby for a band that only formed earlier this year.” - New Noise Magazine