Adelaide expatriate and producer extraordinare Jed Palmer has been keeping himself quietly busy in recent years, producing a few albums here and there for The Brels and The Sea Thieves (still waiting on that one, by the way). He's also been releasing his own music in various guises since the shift to Melbourne, from Girls & Adam to his collaboration with partner and cellist Zoe Barry in Hope Diamond. I mentioned earlier their current project Alarm Birds based on the strength of a little youtube performance of a song called 'Better Pill' in their lounge room. It was a good song too.
The first official recordings to emerge from Alarm Birds are not quite as melodic or full of quirky electronic squeaks and whirs, but are interesting in their own way. They're both wrapped in creaky atmospheres and spooky overtones like a layer of dust. Both 'Love and the Leaves' (presumably from an upcoming album) and demo 'Feathers' sound like they were recorded in the hallway of a dilapidated mansion prone to hauntings and mysterious noises, and they probably where. All thats left is some ghostly singing saw. Now, if only they knew someone who played...
I've also stumbled upon some tracks from their old Adelaide band with Zac Coligan on bandcamp. Save for a track on a Three D compilation or two Bergerac had until now eluded me and to be honest they're a lot weirder and louder than I would have expected from the Zac's current work. An interesting and rewarding listen, either way. It's mostly all free on bandcamp, by the way.
Bergerac Bandcamp
Interesting work. Very interesting.
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