HIGH DESERT QUEEN – PALM READER
It’s only just passed 17.00 on Baker Island, Friday… So… Another Top 2024 album for this Friday Freebie. And another band that always brings it live. Go see them if you can. And give’m a hug! This is HIGH DESERT QUEEN and their PALM READER album, out on Magnetic Eye Records, it came in on Number 2 on the May 2024 Doom Charts. People fell head over heels for their debut album Secrets Of The Black Moon. And PALM READER made sure they stayed there, on all fours, worshipping their dynamic stoner rocking brilliance!
Mitch Kline (DoomyRiffs.com) wrote back then: “Hard-driving, crunchy riffs, fuzzy groove, scorching guitar, gritty, powerful vocals, and a healthy dose of bluesy psychedelia form the foundation for HIGH DESERT QUEEN’s heady, infectious “Texas Desert Rock” sound. The Austin, TX quartet stormed onto the scene with their outstanding 2021 debut, Secrets of the Black Moon. Three years later, the band sounds as confident as ever, showcasing their broad dynamic range on sophomore full length, Palm Reader. Gaupa vocalist Emma Näslund infuses an ethereal mood to “Death Perception.” The simmering spoken word passages of “Tuesday Night Blues” build into an explosive heavy blues headbanger. And standouts “Head Honcho” and “Solar Rain” extend past the nine minute mark. Palm Reader is an instantly memorable album that just gets better with each listen.”
Joop Konraad (Stoner HiVe) wrote: “… If there’s one song that has the Karl Daniel Lidén, responsible for the mixing and mastering, signature over it, it might be title track Palm Reader. The swirling guitar work, the whirling drums, that pounding groove, there are definite moments where its surely easy to imagine the Swedish touch. And you can see the crowd go wild as the chorus hits. Time Waster stays in more broken hard rock boogie territory, a bit of funk, a whole lot of vocal prowess and an axe wielding maniac serving up string poetry with every note played. And hear that drummer and bassist rumble in the distance. All chops and class there! And then we’re hit by the Tuesday Night Blues, soft melodic melancholy surfing on top of a current of jazz and blues, as Garney offers up his spoken word, his graceful bourbon bottom memories about a fateful dreary night. And they end their album with Solar Rain. Fuzz-heavy, straddling the line between heaviness and transcendence, the paradoxical touch between the melancholy drizzle that continues from the Tuesday Night Blues song into Solar Rain, slowly becomes this warm tempest. A psychedelic monsoon showering you with grit, power and a shove that turns into the biggest push of the album. The intensity doubling, tripling and finally thrusting you into the deep end…” Read the full review on Stoner HiVe.
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