Gotta give a quick shout out to one of my favorite rising indie pop acts, Night Palace (fka Avery Leigh’s Night Palace). A friend & rare reader of the blog Tori tipped me to their song “Into the Wake, Mystified” in late 2020, and it eventually found its way onto favorite playlists, Ochre Overture, a dreamy lens into shoegaze, folk, drone and ambient with a little bit of grooves thrown in. They’ve got their debut album Diving Rings coming April 1st and I’m PUMPED – so let’s dive into one of the newest singles!

“Jessica Mystic” is the song I pulled from the selection of early singles off Diving Rings, and it features some shifty guitar work, alien synthesizer work, disembodied calls from beyond (like phone calls from another dimension) and oh, did I mention a sax solo?? It’s giving me a multicolored, woozy and uncanny alternate universe that I’m looking forward to getting lost in come April.

Night Palace’s Diving Rings is out April 1 – pre-order the record via their Bandcamp HERE.