Pale Honey - Pale Honey (2015)

Swedish indie rock duo Pale Honey now release their self-titled debut
album. This 10-track effort follows up on the band's 2014 EP "Fiction".
Though this is their first full-length, guitarist Tuva Lodmark and drummer
Nelly Daltrey have been performing music together since elementary school,
bonding over a mutual love for acts like Queens Of The Stone Age and PJ
Harvey. While the two-piece's sound has evolved since those early years,
they've managed to maintain a distinct, stripped-down approach. This is
readily apparent on "Pale Honey", which was recorded in producer Anders
Lagerfors' kitchen.

A press release describes the band's new material as songs that 'routinely
flirt with the polite, before exploding into fits of distortion', an apt
characterization considering the way in which album highlights "Youth",
"Tease", and "Lonesome" seem to fizz and flare unexpectedly like
firecrackers on the fritz. Like a well-scripted thriller, the LP
effortlessly tosses out just the right amount of sonic twists and turns - a
push, then a pull; a howl, followed by a whimper - to keep listeners hooked
through to the very end.

In an interview last year, Pale Honey talked about their "Fiction" EP,
saying it was just a taste of what's to come. 'We like to think of the EP
as an appetizer to our debut album', they explained. 'If people like this
EP they'll get their mind blown when the album comes out'. Consider the
mission accomplished.