A simple label with big songs. Recording home of The 1984 Draft, Jill & Micah, Kris N., Mary Kate and Trashley, Okay Lindon, Once A Pine, Ruetschle, Second Best, XL427.

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Palm Ghosts is a band based in Nashville TN

Taking cues from such bands as Cocteau Twins, Peter Gabriel, Echo and The Bunnymen, New Order, early U2 and The Cure, Palm Ghosts takes the sounds of early 80s alternative music and brings it into the new millennium.

"Palm Ghosts is a heat-seeking missile for fans of early alternative" -SPIN Magazine

“Elegant and Sweeping Pop” - The Key, WXPN, Philadelphia

“A stirring mix of folk writing with electronica-tinged production…Electronically magnetic and emotionally heartfelt.” - ATWOOD Magazine

“The commodified and codified 80’s are here to stay, from the fake consciousness pop culture nostalgia that dominates the virtual shopping aisles to recreated and reimagined movie memories that manipulate and skew the present. Saddled with the past, culture’s inertia offers up facsimile pap and xerox rock. However, hope exists, listen as true light continues to glisten, appearing through the cracks and haunting the NOW are Nashville’s Palm Ghosts.” -MUSIC NEWS UK

“Made in the USA during the 2020 quarantine Lifeboat Candidate has antecedents in Peter Gabriel’s third 1980 solo album, The Cure’s Three Imaginary Boys and the early I Will Follow/11 O’clock Tick Tock-era U2 but filtered through a modern American sensibility to reflect on the worries and horrors of the modern world.” - WE ARE CULT

“Blind is a gorgeous, tribal-infused track with equal hints of Peter Gabriel, The Teardrop Explodes, and Gang of Four.” - POST PUNK.COM

“Achingly beautiful, fragile and majestic music. An intoxicating mix of Shoegaze and Dream pop, taking from the 80’s but not in debt to it.” - ANALOGUE TRASH

Benny Cardenas
📽 Creative + Sync + A&R  🎧 
Los Angeles, CA

Gerald Josef (PreCog) Midi Programmer, Sound Designer, Producer, Drum Programmer. 
If you need recording/producing or remixes that is my specialty. 615-305-9677 or geraldjgardiner@gmail.com

Current Bands I am in: 
Normal Scope of Men (Local Nashville Synthpop)

Sound Agency (online collaboration, UK and Canada
Mark Naylor (Synth and Keys)
Darren Bowers (Vocals)
Gerald Gardiner (Synth and Keys)

The Clockhouse (Local Alt Rock)
J - Guitars, songwriter, lyricist 
Gerald - Programmer song writer
Jason W Spencer - Vocalist

Dreamy songs for absurd times. Music that sits at the crossroads of classic post-punk, new wave, dream-pop and shoegaze. 

First single, 'Empire', out on December 8th. 

Our EP 'How the Mighty Will Fall' drops March 2023.

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