Pale Honey

Pale Honey’s 10-track debut 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. Songs that “routinely flirt with the polite, before exploding into fits of distortion,” is 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 fellow travellers hooked through to the very end.