Interview with Palace Winter
Following the release of their debut EP Medication in 2015 Palace Winter turned some heads. Fast-forward to today, and Palace Winter are now set to release their debut album Waiting for the World to Turn along with first atmospheric first single Positron.
There is an intriguing synthesis for Palace Winter. First of all the band includes Caspar Hesselager and Carl Coleman, a Dane and an Australian that happened to cross paths and become friends while touring separately. Secondly, the name Palace Winter comes from the French hotel in Menton called Winter Palace that Coleman discovered during his travels in Europe. In a way then Palace Winter demonstrates how serendipity, or perhaps travel, can engineer good fortune.
The band has been described as uptempo alternative, and there has been mention of Jonny Marr-ish guitars. Whether you’re a Smith’s fan or not, Palace Winter have nevertheless rapidly made their mark in music and are getting ready to grace the world’s stages. We caught up with Coleman and Hesselager to talk about their journey, influences, music and what we can expect from them in the coming years.
fluoro. How did Palace Winter come to life?
Palace Winter. We met on a tour bus while we were playing in other projects and bonded over stuff like Interpol, Bill Hader, Elliott Smith, Seinfeld etc. It was Caspar’s idea that we should jump in his studio and see what happened. Six months later we had a finished EP, signed to Tambourhinoceros and Palace Winter was born.
f. What do each of you bring to the band?
PW. I (Carl) come from a very straight up singer-songwriter background. My old band Sink Ships was an Alt-Country/Americana sort of thing that was influenced by a lot of Aussie stuff too, like Roland S. Howard and Tex Perkins. Caspar on the other hand is a classically trained pianist and producer with a background in jazz and synth-pop. So I guess I’m kind of the farmer and he’s the academic.
f. How would you describe your music style?
PW. The fusion of our opposing worlds is what interested us the most when we first started recording songs together. We like to call it “Country-Kraut”. Sort of Euro-Americana. Music built for the road and sleepless nights.
f. What are your influences?
PW. We’re influenced by heaps of old and current music of course. A lot of the time we get inspired by films like There Will Be Blood, The Exorcist, anything by Kubric and Herzog and recently Interstellar and Mad Max.
f. Melbourne. Copenhagen. Do the unique cultures of these two cities impact your music? If so, how?
PW. Melbourne’s definitely had a huge impact on me (Carl) personally. Being such a music town, growing up in Melbs I was spoiled with amazing gigs and inspiring bands that were all from around the corner. Stylistically I’d like to think that raw and honest spirit that Melbourne music is known for, shines through. And I’m still an avid Doggies supporter! As for Copenhagen, well it’s way smaller and more like a big village, which has its challenges too. It’s really dark and cold most of the year round. So we wanted to make something that felt like big open spaces as an escape.
f. Why did you choose a similar underlying sound for each track in the EP Medication?
PW. That was probably just a natural occurrence that wasn’t not pre-conceived. We sort of found a place that felt like us very quickly. And suddenly it was like “oh synths and acoustics and driving beats and shit … ok yeah this is Palace.” It’s also the combination of my songwriting style and sound with Caspar’s wide-screen production, which played a big role in finding our own universe.
f. Tell us about what we can expect from Waiting for the World to Turn?
WP. We really tried to expand the whole thing further and explore some new territory. At moments going even more epic and in other moments, really zooming in on something intimate. There’s anything from bangers to synth ballads and hopefully a little something for everyone.
f. What do you want to see come to life from your debut album?
PW. Basically we just hope people have as much fun listening to it as we did making it. I think we’re both really proud of this one and we’re psyched to make new songs.
The remainder of 2016 is proving to be a real cornerstone for the band, from the release of their album to shows all over the world, including Roskilde Festival in Denmark, as well as Latitude, Sziget in Budapest and Green Man in Wales, which has some of their favourites on the lineup like Tindersticks and Melbourne’s very own King Gizzard.
The forthcoming album of Palace Winter Waiting for the World to Turn, is set for release on Friday 3 June 2016.
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