Palberta Blends Big-Tent Pop and Art-Rock on âPalberta5000â
The New York trio remains gleefully odd on an album recorded in just four days.
Nina Ryser, Ani Ivry-Block, Lily Konigsberg of Palberta trade instruments and sing in tight harmonies.Credit.Chloe Carrasco
By Lindsay Zoladz
Jan. 21, 2021
Palberta is a three-piece rock band without a guitarist, a bassist or a drummer. Or, to put it another way, Palberta is a band with three of each of those things: Onstage and on its records, Ani Ivry-Block, Lily Konigsberg and Nina Ryser trade instruments between nearly every song and harmonize with a near familial tightness that makes the very notion of a frontperson seem absurd. âIt kind of feels like we share a brain in a lot of ways, at this point,â Konisberg said in 2018. It kind of sounds like that, too.
Drew Morrison: Thank you. Thank you. I’m well, I’m well, just hanging in there. How are you?
Collom: I’m doing, I’m doing well. Thank you. Thank you so much. So you just put out a second EP, “Birdwatching” … The first EP was “Doing Things While Brushing Your Teeth.”
What’s changed for you since this first EP came out and now the second EP? What have been some of the differences so far in putting those two out?
Morrison: I think there’s a couple of primary differences. I think the subject matter is very different. The first EP that I put out was very much a classic breakup EP. I was really sad getting out of a relationship and that was a good vessel for me to put my energy into…
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On this live album, based from a 2014 concert film, you can hear the Postal Service transform from an idea to a band.
They might pal around with Huey Lewis now, but the Postal Service were once considered ahead of their time. Their collaboration, in which they sent each other digital files, is routine today but felt futuristic then, even though they relied on snail mail and not the cloud. Songs from their one and only studio album, 2003âs
Give Up, were used by countless commercials and indie films striving to seem hip, lending an imprimatur of subcultural currency for a few years when, no kidding, bookish tenderness could seem almost radical. Nine years later, the album officially went platinum.
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