Welcome to the acoustic, melancholic and slightly car boot electronic world of Palm Springs and our label Random Acts Of Vinyl. Established in 2004 with a firm DIY ethic-put off today what you can do tomorrow and persevere without instructions or guidance-we continue to write, record and release records with admirable abandon and more than a little help from our friends. If life was fair we'd be millionaires and if dreams came true we'd be kissing you. Be good kids, buy vinyl and be your own myth, we all need them!
The Hope That Kills You RAOV09CD/LP (Album)
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"Powerfully executing the beautiful idea of sounds rich and bare getting to the heart of personal inner conflict- who to love?/how to love? - this cultish band should be up there, right of radiohead, left of coldplay, delivering marvels to the masses." 4 Stars - Mojo
"The last singles are there, including the sing along Free Atlas, a sure hit in another age, a great opportunity to listen to them for those that never knew a spinning 45, and the most amazing thing is that they are all overshadowed by their eight newcomers . The album finishes with the wonderful Bury Me Not – without a doubt Palm Springs’ plea not to bury them alive, so instead of buying dead artists’ records you know what to do ! The album is on Random Acts of Vinyl… now that’s a great label name isn’t it?" 4 Stars - Tatapoum
"Songwriters DC Cane and J Russo have come some way since their 2007 debut album – still present is the instrumentation’s sprawling melancholy and the attention to production detail, but the most obvious and immediate progression is the quality of the songs themselves. Billed as a documentation of the aftermath of heartbreaking loss the album nonetheless avoids being mired in gloom, rather it’s a light at the end of the tunnel that makes you dry your eyes, blow your nose and greet the world with renewed optimism." - The Source
Free Atlas / Shared History RAOV07 (7" Single)
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Single Of The Month - Rolling Stone Magazine
"Free Atlas shows again the immense talent of Palm Springs for writing simply beautiful songs without artifice, and expressing the naked truth. Vivement l'album!" 9/10 - Tatapoum
"Another near perfect brace of willowy wonders, wrapped with arresting melodic ribbons and ready for heart yearning and breaking despatch. You need this in your record collection!" - Losing Today
"Bloody brilliant" - Wolfgang Doebeling Radio Eins
"A well put together pop song, well produced with a slightly hazy, dreamy edge to it. It has a melancholy feel, with some elements recalling Crane Builders, Aztec Camera, and Tindersticks in the guitar" - Norman Records
Blood And Water / Stop Making Plans RAS-45003 (7" Single)
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No.1 Single of the Year 2008 Rolling Stone readers Poll!
Single Of The Month - Rolling Stone Magazine
"The exquisite ease of alluring artistry softly unfurling within is just breathtaking as the sweetly bitter sting of the forlornly saddened strings dapple a path of softly measured and intimately scored detail. A precious thing all said" - Losing Today
"So 'Blood And Water' is a slow pop song watercolour, just designed to outline, just underlined by a cello and a few discreet electric piano notes, a beautiful song, but what makes this a great single is, 'Stop Making Plans', in less than two minutes you forget all the other songs that have ever capsized your heart" 10/10 - Tatapoum
"For music lovers in times of economic crisis and recession" 9/10 - Twang Tone
"A gentle concoction of tender, fragile sing-song vocals, strings and hushed acoustic guitars after too many valium and sad books, played with a grace and classicism that is quite faultless" - Norman Records
I Start Fires / Twilight Of A Star RAOV5
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Single Of The Month - Rolling Stone Magazine
"I Start Fires is the sound of a band flexing their musical muscles, and is the most ambitious and self-confident release to date of this truly individual and independent of bands" - Rough Trade Records
"The sound of someones heart breaking committed to vinyl, complete with elaborate orchestration, there won't be a dry eye in the house. Timeless pop, and a record to cherish" - Norman Records
"Mercury Rev and Earlies like acoustic instrumentation, shot through with a hefty dose of Southern US country twang. Absolutely cannot wait for the new album" - The Source
"The beautiful arrangements, warm the heart and recall the bygone era of the late, great Pale Fountains" 9/10 - Tatapoum
"A deliriously happy/sad extravaganza of prickling perfect pop, dutifully adorned with a fetching and welcoming glow that's cut to the bone with the unfailing tread of optimism against adversity. One minute crest fallen and abandoned, the next euphoric and rising high, this fulsomely colourful carnival of sound touches, teases and tears away at your resistance to radiate a candy coated elegance. Breathless stuff" - Losing Today
No Hurt Like A Broken Heart RAOV4 LP/CD
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Number Two - Best Albums Of 2006 - Rolling Stone Magazine
"Palm Springs may well have created, and released through their label Random Acts Of Vinyl, the chamber pop album of the year. 'No Hurt Like A Broken Heart' is an immediate pleasure, a record that demands and rewards your full attention and is one of the finest debuts we've heard this year"
8/10 - No Ripcord
"Palm Springs are two visionary troubadours whose debut album is an outstanding, flowing, mesmerizing experience that transports you somewhere else. It is an enchanting, seamlessly hypnotic, musical memoir, the foundations of which are fantastically diverse and inventive uses of instrumentation, alongside beautifully observed and articulated lyrics"
8/10 - Is This Music?
Album of the Month - Mr Dead and Mrs Free
"Ambitious lo-fi country and dreamy laid-back ambience, with moments of melancholic beauty" - Rock 'N' Reel
"No Hurt Like A Broken Heart is an album that creaks with heartache and sadness, an at times painfully honest and intense affair that slowly gets under your skin, gradually winning you over. A stark, beautiful record, Palm Springs have delivered a debut full of desolate gorgeousness and swooning heartache" - UK Music Review
"Folk that caresses the ears and melts the heart. Palm Springs deliver the panacea for musical happiness" - LP Magazine
"Brilliant debut from Brighton tunesmiths. Shards of longing stabbing an acoustic heart" - Recommended Release - Rounder Records
"The ten tracks of gentle, ethereal chamber-folk spread themselves over my conscious like a shadowy dream, all half-light echoes and emotional memories. My focus enthralled, all around me, motionless. A thing of wonder and no less"
- The Source
"More lush, melancholic, painful beauty from Brighton's Palm Springs, whose 7"s have been gaining them a worldwide reputation. The LP is exactly what we could have hoped for, more of their exquisitly delicate, sparsely quiet, honest pop spread out over the course of an LP. Just great"
- Rough Trade Records
"Twinkling, pulsating melancholy of yearning vocals over lush orchestration on the almost perfect ten tracks of this really rather special album"
9/10 - Norman Records
"An album that demands your full attention to appreciate the sophisticated orchestrations and melodies, from a most promising English duo"
9/10 - Tatapoum
Softly To Fallen / Sense Of Wonder RAOV3
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Number Two - Best 45s 2006 - Wolfgang Doebeling
"Palm Springs from Brighton are producing just one 7" a summer, and each one a gem. Softly To Fallen is the third coup on 45 and, like its predecessors Tender Remains and Echo Of Me is elaborated down to the last detail of the arrangement, to the superb dramaturgy of the song's circuitry, to the diaphanous capillary of the instrumentation. Chamber pop, mellow and bittersweet" - Rolling Stone Magazine
"Palm Springs return with their third limited single and they just seem to get better and better. Softly To Fallen weaves its way in with a beautiful combination of guitar and piano, and is a slow building burner. Wonderful stuff and highly tipped" - Rough Trade Records
"Palm Springs deliver melancholic and simply glorious acoustic music, so that you feel almost transported to somewhere quite magical"
- Straight No Chaser
"Two more songs that some other British bands might kill for. You can almost hear the songs breathing, so much so that you are concerned about imprisoning them again in the record sleeve" - Connaisseur Music
Echo Of Me / After Honey RAOV2
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"Number One - Editors Playlist"- Rolling Stone
"Number Four - Best 45's Of 2005" - Wolfgang Doebeling
"The wonderful acoustic sense and gorgeous melodies add up to something quite special here. Very limited and very good, just right for the leaves turning" - Rough Trade Records
"Palm Springs are at the height of their art here. Dignified pop with a crystal clear piano at its heart, note by note equally considered and felt"
- Connaisseur Music
"A gently swelling lament, threading timid melancholia through plaintive tuning pegs, until the twisting turns everything up to epic proportions"
- The Source
Tender Remains / Fall Morning RAOV1
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"If Brighton's Palm Springs played any quieter there'd be nothing on the vinyl. A gently sung lullaby layers the darker side of country with warm slide guitar. There's a rare ability in forming beauty from something tragic, and this priceless dose of melancholy has it in droves" - The Fly
"Rasping fragile vocals, and lush bedroom orchestration. This is the sound of acoustic melancholia" - Rough Trade Records
"A charming little sweetness which hints at a chilled sadness. Their titles say it all" - Tatapoum
