If you need your daily dose of sun-drenched, infectious indie rock today, you’re in luck because you’ve found it with the new EP from Palms, Intensity Sunshine.
The Sydney quartet are proud to release their first new music into the world today after five years and boy, have they really itched all the right scratches. To celebrate its release, Palms gave us the inside scoop on their latest music and take us through each track from Intensity Sunshine.
This One Is Your One
On a micro personal level it’s about how rad my boyfriend is. On a more macro level it’s about the transformative power of love. I feel like I’ve written enough songs pining for some unattainable, uninterested guy to last a lifetime, so thought I should write one about when things actually work out and you fall for someone and they are so great and seem to wake you up from a coma and make you realise you’ve been sleep-walking through life for too long. Hopefully it sounds like the rush of waking up.
Too High For You
There’s not heaps to say about this one. I kind of wrote that chorus line and really liked it, but thought, “We’re not Dune Rats, I can’t write a song about being high.” So kind of spun it to try and catch that feeling of when you’re getting shit done and feeling good and sort of invincible and it’s like, “I’m too high above all this crap to let anything drag me down.”
Calling
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For me this one is about coming out and being proud and owning who you are, who you’ve been, all that and finding a way to be comfortable in it. Other people might relate to that, or it could just be living the life you wanna live, doing that thing you always wanted to do but put off or are kind of intimidated by. Like when you know there’s something better out there and it’s calling to you. You gotta pick up that call cos what other options are there, really?
Life
This one is about growing up and you and your circle of friends changing. Babies, houses, moving states… You caught life, you grew up. Obviously there’s nothing wrong with any of those things and there’s still so much in all of that to enjoy, but the song’s just taking a little moment to acknowledge the change and sit with the things that get left behind when life moves on.
Summertime
Summertime is a song about climate change and the end of the world dressed up as a good time summer party anthem. Like literally, summertime all the time = RIP planet earth. Endless bummer. It’s weird cos beach culture is such a huge part of Australian identity, something you would think is related to a love of nature, but we’re just sleep walking into this ecological disaster. So the lyrics try to mess around with surf rock tropes and that easy-going Australian “she’ll be right mate” attitude, turning them on their heads and splicing it all with impending doom.
Watch ‘This One Is Your One’ by Palms below.
