PALMS [new Chino Moreno side project]

Inkblades · May 07, 2013, 08:17 PM

The snippets sound great to me from a musical standpoint. Chino's voice seems so distant, though. Echo chamber is an apt description. His vocals on Antarctic Handshake sound nice.

shoop · May 07, 2013, 08:58 PM

Needs 1 bonus track for itunes or whatever

Jerry_Curls · May 07, 2013, 09:30 PM

I love the drum beat on "Future Warrior"...reminds me of Cocteau Twins (someone mentioned that earlier for "Patagonia") So dreamy like the album Treausre.

At first I didn't like the reverb, but now I'm digging it. Dfferent from all his other projects.

cvthedrv · May 07, 2013, 10:35 PM

i dont know what to think, fuck this.

bewareofrats · May 08, 2013, 12:20 AM

I think the distant vocals is something I could get used to. I love the sounds of Mission Sunset, Shortwave Radio and Antarctic Handshake so far. Future Warrior reminds me of the theme song to the stupid Canadian show North of 60. The theme song isn't bad though so it's not a bad thing to me.

Also, I am really liking the drums/percussion on this.

play · May 08, 2013, 12:38 AM

i fucking hate the vocal sound. Wheres the fucking mid-low range in it? it sounds so thin.

DeftonesNZ · May 08, 2013, 12:42 AM

I'm not gonna judge the vocals of some low quality samples, I made that mistake with Patagonia already

Slacker · May 08, 2013, 02:13 AM

fuck the samples i wont tease myself. i can live with patagonia for the entire month...

bewareofrats · May 08, 2013, 05:13 AM

Has it leaked yet?

Jerry_Curls · May 08, 2013, 06:03 AM

Quote from: play on May 08, 2013, 12:38 AM
i fucking hate the vocal sound. Wheres the fucking mid-low range in it? it sounds so thin.

I think that's what I like about it. It's a production style Chino hasn't done on any of his tracks.

luisch · May 08, 2013, 06:08 AM

The mix of Amazon is unmastered btw. I uploaded the preview to Soundcloud and was contacted by Ipecac Recordings, they wrote to me asking get down the track because is a "unfinished version"

N0S3BLEED976 · May 08, 2013, 03:51 PM

Not too fond of the samples on amazon, but Patagonia has grown on me a bit, though. Still kind of disappointed with the project...

pony_01 · May 08, 2013, 06:14 PM

it grows with weed

Jerry_Curls · May 08, 2013, 09:20 PM

Quote from: N0S3BLEED976 on May 08, 2013, 03:51 PM
Not too fond of the samples on amazon, but Patagonia has grown on me a bit, though. Still kind of disappointed with the project...

You haven't explained why tho...what were you expecting? What makes it disappointing? Lets talk about it

N0S3BLEED976 · May 08, 2013, 11:59 PM

Quote from: Jerry_Curls on May 08, 2013, 09:20 PM
You haven't explained why tho...what were you expecting? What makes it disappointing? Lets talk about it

Chino's new style of singing in this project is just barely enjoyable to me, since it sounds so high pitched and forced. The music itself is pretty good so far, though I cetainly hoped for more instrumental parts. For example in Patagonia at 3:55 minuts, the part where the guitar kicks in would have been so much better If they just let it be like that for a while. Instead, Chino almost instantly croon over it again... It's like they had the right ideas to produce a beautiful song but just didn't know how to properly execute it.

Future Warrior however seems to be entirely instrumental, which is a good thing for me personally.

Edit: I haven't mentioned everything I didn't like about the songs, It's hard for me to put it in words actually. I also don't want to write an entire novel about the subject.

N0S3BLEED976 · May 09, 2013, 12:10 AM

I apologize for any possible grammatical errors. Had a few too many drinks tonight...

bewareofrats · May 09, 2013, 12:18 AM

I think it would be nice if there was a fair amount of instrumental portion on this. Patagonia has too much Chino or high parts for me, but the rest might not be as much. The music on the samples sounds very nice and interesting to me. It would be nice to also have a pure instrumental version of this, maybe someone will rig that up. I think Chino's style or the production on this will grow on me.

lftpp · May 09, 2013, 12:31 AM

https://soundcloud.com/ipecacrecordings/02-patagonia

DeftonesNZ · May 09, 2013, 12:34 AM

I think it's way too soon for people to say the whole project is a failure when they haven't even heard it yet.

ANattyRat · May 11, 2013, 10:26 AM

This might be the only side-project with Chino that I'm not a huge fan of. Patagonia is nice, but doesn't blow me away. Maybe it's just a bit too slow and dreamy for me. I'm not sure, I'll have to hear more. Can anyone link me to the samples, or have they been taken down? I can't see them on Amazon.