Palace have released their brand new, deeply personal, fourth studio album Ultrasound, out now on Fiction Records.
Armed with an already extensive discography of stunning music, the new record’s production sees the band reunited with Adam Jaffrey, eight years after working together on their debut album, So Long Forever, and arrives off the back of Part I – When Everything Was Lost and Part II – Nightmares & Ice Cream, the band’s 2023 companion EPs.
While writing the first batch of songs for the album, frontman Leo Wyndham’s partner suffered a late miscarriage. Ultrasound naturally became an open diary of a year-long struggle from devastation to deliverance. “It was incredibly hard to comprehend what had happened, how to deal with it and how to move forward,” Leo says. “The album is the journey of that experience – starting with a loss, then a period of processing, and then finally acceptance, release and growth. And being in awe of women within that. Their dignity, strength and courage in how they can deal with these things that feel beyond a man.”
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Leo, guitarist Rupert Turner and drummer Matt Hodges began playing together in 2012 after fate had brought them all separately to London. The childhood friends released their acclaimed debut EP Lost In The Night in 2014, followed by the Chase The Light EP the year after. With four albums under their belt, So Long Forever, Life After, 2022’s Shoals and this year’s Ultrasound, the band have acquired a mass of adoring fans across the world.
Currently playing a run of special, stripped back release shows across the UK, including two sold-out dates at Rough Trade East in London on April 6, Palace return to the road later this year for an extensive UK and EU tour. Kicking off in Paris on October 29, the run will culminate with their biggest headline show to date at London’s Eventim Apollo on November 30.
