New York-based producer, Past Palms, creates Lo-Fi music to water your plants to. The music aims to encapsulate the feeling of surrounding yourself with an oasis of tropical houseplants while living in a grey, nature-less city. The plant-inspired artist released their Vernal EP last spring to the plaudits Mixmag, Exclaim! and Run The Trap, with Spotify includeding the lead single, “Rainwater,” on their hugely popular “Chill Tracks” playlist.
The artist then followed up Vernal with a two-part single entitled “When the Sun Reaches Its Highest Point in the Sky”, which Billboard described as “a gorgeous, transportive composition.” Following this, the producer just released their third EP entitled Empyrean, which features a more Eastern-inflected sound palette. Inspired by the scores of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, Empyrean is a lush soundscape blooming with cascading harps, rainforest field recordings, ethereal strings, and warped vocal samples. The title acts as a direct contrast to the year in which it was made, 2020, serving as an expression of hope for a better day along the horizon.
Ever one in tune with the seasonal changes, Past Palms released their debut, self-titled EP on the 2019 summer solstice, a trend they’ve followed since. His latest offering, the new single “Summer Prayer” is a release to mark the the Autumnal Equinox.
Commenting on the new track, the artist offers, “Last year, I released a free track for the season change, and I thought it would be nice to do it again this year. However, the song I want to release this year is much brighter and warmer, which it made me reflect on what it means to celebrate a new season.”
Adding, “Is it the embrace of impending change or a reflection on what just occurred? In this case, I decided to view this song as a moment of gratitude for the season that just passed, a ‘Summer Prayer’ if you will. One last moment to bask in the sunlight and heat before the leaves die and the days darken.”
With “Summer Prayer”, Past Palms delivers the quintessential sound of their style and has made it available as a free download via the artist’s Soundcloud and Bandcamp. A lush soundscape of lo-fi tones pair a restrained tribal-esque percussive rhythm and lofty vocal samples textures to make this a gentle sonic transition to Autumn and all that it brings.
Listen to Summer Prayer below
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