PALBERTA

“Ani Ivry-Block, Lily Konigsberg, and Nina Ryser, the three talented and funny women who make up the cult noise rock band Palberta (…)have a once in a lifetime kind of chemistry. “It’s hard to figure out if we all have similar interests, or if we all became each other because we spend so much time together,” Lily says. “It kind of feels like we all share a brain in a lot of ways, at this point.”

Palberta’s telepathy shows in the way they talk to and about each other; in their explosive, synergetic live performances; and their knotty, kinetic punk sound, which they’ve spent the last year or so refining into the cobwebby Tilt-A-Whirl that is their excellent new record, Roach Goin’ Down, (out June 15 on Wharf Cat Records, and streaming in full today). They share in their creations as equally and naturally as they do the kitchen, treating their songs like experiments in riffing on each others’ energies.

The trio met at Bard College in 2013 when Nina organized a show in which they each played solo, along with Paco Cathcart, who records all the Palberta albums. (They each have very cool solo projects: Nina’s is under her own name and she’s in the band Old Maybe, Ani goes by Shimmer, Lily’s got Lily & Horn Horse.) Lily was attending Vermont’s Bennington College at the time, and after the show she approached Nina and Ani to tell them she was going to apply to transfer to Bard, and if she got in, they should all jam sometime. “And so Lily got into Bard, thank god, congratulations,” says Nina, who always tells the story of how they met. In a happy coincidence, the three new friends also happened to all be from New York City, so there was no summer break interruption in their budding project. They jammed, and kept jamming.” https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xeeaa/palberta-roach-goin-down-stream-interview

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/palberta-roach-goin-down/

Human Host: Michael Apichella of Baltimore

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/towson-glen-arm-freakouts-baltimore-music/

https://www.baltimoresun.com/citypaper/bcp-cms-1-1524617-migrated-story-cp-20130724-music-20130724-story.html

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