Palm Rock Island 10/21/2014 a song from a seven-inch

a song from a seven-inch single given away with the first pressing of Numan's next album

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Photographer: Jarrod McCabe

All the lingering nastiness of One of the Boys -- the smiling Mean Girl backstabbing of "Ur So Gay

piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar

Palm Rock Island 10/21/2014 a song from a seven-inchOn Rock Island, their second LP, Palm produces evidence of a distinct musical language, developed over time, in isolation, and out of necessity. On the island, melodies are struck on what might be shells or spines. Rhythms are scratched out, swept over, scratched again. Individual instruments, and sometimes entire sections, skip and stutter. There is the sense of a music box with wonky tension or a warped transmission in which all the noise is taken