piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar
Approaching Tool's LATERALUS with a casual ear would be a careless endeavor
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Photographer: Jarrod McCabe
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Palm Rock Island 10/21/2014 piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitarOn Rock Island, their second LP, Palm produces evidence of a distinct musical language, developed over time, in isolation, and out of necessity. On the island, melodies are struck on what might be shells or spines. Rhythms are scratched out, swept over, scratched again. Individual instruments, and sometimes entire sections, skip and stutter. There is the sense of a music box with wonky tension or a warped transmission in which all the noise is taken