Palace talk “ferocious, beautiful” new album ‘Ultrasound’: “There is often great hope to be found in difficult times”
nme.comPalace vocalist Leo Wyndham has spoken to NME about the band’s fourth album ‘Ultrasound’, playing Coachella, and coming to terms with his wife’s miscarriage.‘Ultrasound’ was released last week (April 5) and follows on from 2022’s ‘Shoals’.
According to Wyndham, Palace’s new record comes with “much more clarity”.“It’s not a concept album, but it was written about a year of the band and the journey my wife and I went on after she suffered a miscarriage,” he said.He continued: “There’s a lot of excitement about the record coming out, but there are also some nerves.
It’s always scary when something you make is in the spotlight. When you’re writing about such personal things, it’s hard not to care what people think.”When Palace first started writing ‘Ultrasound’, there was no grand vision.
The band weren’t even sure if they were going to be making an album. Instead, they booked two weeks in the studio with producer Adam Jaffrey (who’d previously worked with Palace on their 2016 debut album ‘So Long Forever’) to create a handful of songs.“We were just going into the studio to see what would happen.
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