KAMIKAZE PALM TREE

2022 is the miraculous second album by KAMIKAZE PALM TREE, a duo led by Dylan Hadley, the drummer of Tim Presley's White Fence and Cate Le Bon. You might think that they are influenced by avant-garde and junk from the 80s and 90s, and even more so by the late 2000s USA experimental lineage, but the reason they have a completely different appeal from self-satisfied alternative bands around the world is that they follow their predecessors while building their art, "similar but completely different." This album is as nice as if the early 80s Belgian bands Factory Benelux and Crammed Disc had backed up post-punk and Cate Le Bon.