Getting to know... Sad Palace

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]South Coast quartet Sad Palace make thoughtful sparkling indie-pop that’s super chilled out, and makes you want to bop a bit, AND has the occasional killer riff. It’s magical stuff. They’ve just dropped their new single ‘Frostbeat’, a track about trials and tribulations, with a video to match. Frontman Louis introduces his band.

Hey Louis, tell us about your band - who are you all and what do you do for fun?

We are four Englishmen in our mid-twenties, Matthew, Owen, Louis and Dan.

Living with each other is usually pretty fun, but we also grapple with questions of existence and human suffering, just to pass the time. That and sports.

You’ve just dropped another new single via Kissability - how did you hook up with the label?

We’ve been big fans of Kissability for a while, always loved what Jen and Transgressive do and really dig the label's focus on the physical format. So when we recorded our first two singles last year, it seemed worth a try to send it to them and see what they thought. We were pretty bowled over to hear they liked the songs and that they wanted to make a run of cassettes. It was a beautiful day opening the box of cassettes to see our tracks in all their blue plastically goodness. Being able to work with them again on a second release with 'Frostbeat' was a nice affirming moment for us.

You’ve said your new single ‘Frostbeat’ is about loneliness, is that something you suffer from a lot?

Sometimes it feels like loneliness is just a healthy part of being a human being. Other times, it does feel like something is broken, but I think that is just what the loneliness wants you to think. It's ironic that there are so many people all packed in together, but we can still feel isolated at times. As Conor Oberst sang: "I'm completely alone at a table of friends."