Rock Island

by Palm

Rock Island cover art

The Philadelphia-based quartet pushed their dizzyingly complex guitar interactions into highly textured, MIDI-triggered pop territory for their sophomore album. The incredibly syncopated, tropical-tinged instrumentation requires the band members to trigger synth patches via custom pickups on their guitars, resulting in a completely alien, interlocking rhythmic puzzle. It was widely celebrated as a brilliantly weird, highly accessible achievement in modern experimental rock.

Genres

  • Math Pop
  • Progressive Pop
  • Neo-Psychedelia

Tracklist

  1. Pearly
  2. Composite
  3. Dog Milk
  4. Forced Hand
  5. Theme From Rock Island
  6. Bread
  7. Color Code
  8. Swimmer
  9. Heavy Lifting
  10. 20664
  11. (Didn't What You Want) Happen