Palberta is Nina Ryser, Lily Konigsberg and Ani Ivry-Block.
Palberta’s actual brunt is thoroughly warped in an all-American style, smelling of tent parties in the piney woods and much as sweatstained house shows in the valleys of the Northeast Kingdom. They take pains to stretch their compositions in a lot of strange simultaneous directions, which both reference and deny the influence of early Rough Trade recording acts. Their brilliantly sloppy experimentalism is one of those sounds that will grow in the creases of yr brain like a lovely fungus. You’ll only know you’ve “arrived” when you’d sprouted a full head of mushroom antlers.
Go ahead, take the Palberta challenge. Today.
– Byron Coley, 2014