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.