New music from Past Palms

Past Palms is a New York-based producer creating 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 with praise from Mixmag, who wrote, “The New York-based producer is steadily building a reputation for crafting lush soundscapes imbued with an organic sense of tranquillity.”

Past Palms 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.”

Now, the producer is preparing to release 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.

He brings us his new track “Tropics”, a smoky, exotic electronic soundscape full of driving beats, eastern influenced instrumentation and ambient vocal samples.

Picture the hot sun pouring through old Brooklyn windows onto a lush indoor palm tree, all while brash city noises echo throughout a plant-filled room. That juxtaposition of surrounding yourself with nature within an industrial environment is the theme of Billboard-approved producer Past Palms. “Tropics” further serves that theme with rainforest field recordings, cascading harps, and dance-forward beats.

Listen to Tropics below

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