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NIGHT PALACE (ATHENS, GA / NYC)
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Night Palace's debut album Diving Rings is a shocking alchemy: aching nostalgia meets frothy anticipation of what’s beyond the garden wall. Tantalizing pop melodies take wing with lush instrumentation, weaving a reedy bed for songwriter Avery Draut’s shimmering vocals. It’s hard to believe the album is not a soundtrack to . . . something. You find yourself picturing it: a moonlit-gilded diorama of Draut’s dreams and memories.
Spanning eleven songs and interludes, Diving Rings ebbs and flows through tracks like "Enjoy the Moon!" dubbed by AllMusic Editor’s Choice, "a song that sounds like a lost Pet Sounds track played by Broadcast;" grounded indie-rock songs "Into the Wake, Mystified" and "Stranger Powers;" and the celeste-gilded folk song "Titania."
Growing up, Draut would wake to her dad blasting Court and Spark or Nilsson Schmilsson as he danced around the living room, riling the dogs. At school in Athens, Georgia she studied classical voice, singing in a myriad of operas and recitals. After five years of fruitful and intensive opera performance, she found a Lowrey Magic Genie™ electric organ at the thrift store. Enchanted by its sound, she sat down for the first time to write songs of her own: the songs that would become Diving Rings.
Paste Magazine encapsulates the now Athens, Georgia and NYC-based act’s sound: "Diving Rings wraps freak-folk energy in a lush psych-pop package." The album was released on April 1 via Park the Van, and was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered podcast.
NIGHT PALACE (ATHENS, GA/NYC)
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