Naima Bock has announced her debut album, Giant Palm, which will arrive on July 1 via Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction. Today, the singer-songwriter has shared a video for the album’s title track, which follows the early singles ’30 Degrees’ and ‘Every Morning’. Check out the Max McLachlan-directed clip below and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork.
Talking about the new track, Bock explained in a press release:
Giant Palm was written collaboratively by myself and Joel Burton (who arranged and
produced the whole album), I wrote the vocal melody and lyrics and he wrote the
instrumentation. The recording process was limited (which I always find the most
creatively productive way to record) by what we had in Joel’s room and recorded
during the summer of 2020, resulting in mostly electronic instruments apart from the
acoustic guitar. The vocals were later recorded by my dad, Victor Bock. We named
the album after this song as it was the one that most reflected our collaboration as
musicians and the innocence and freedom that characterised the making of the
record.
Commenting on the video, Bock added: “He projected the contrast of elevation and submission that is present in the song into a physical visual format. I’ve struggled to express in writing the meaning of this song so I feel it is best to leave the listener to make of it what they will. It’s a deeply personal song which means it can be reflected in whichever way one feels they want it to be.”
Giant Palm Cover Artwork:
Naima Bock 2022 Tour Dates:
18 Apr – Porto, PT – Casa Da Musica %
19 Apr – Lisbon, PT – Capitolio %
21 Apr – Madrid, ES – Sala Mon %
22 Apr – Barcelona, ES – La 2 %
23 Apr – Lyon, FR – L’Epicerie Moderne %
25 Apr – Milano, IT – Santeria %
26 Apr – Zurich, CH – Mascotte %
27 Apr – Munich, DE – Ampere %
28 Apr – Cologne, DE – Stadtgarten %
29 Apr – Hamburg, DE – Nochtspeicher %
30 Apr – Berlin, DE – Lido %
2 May – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Noord %
4 May – London – Scala %
5 May – Brussels, BE – Botanique (Orangerie) %
6 May – Paris, FR – Cabaret Sauvage %
7 May – Lille, FR – Aeronef %
8 May – Nantes, FR – Le Lieu Unique %
11-14 May – Brighton – The Great Escape
21 May – Edinburgh – The Great Eastern Festival
23 May – London – The Lexington (headline)
28 May – Totnes – Sea Change Festival
17 Jun – Edinburgh – Hidden Door Festival
1 Jul – London – Rough Trade East (instore)
1-04 Sep – Dorset – End of the Road Festival
9-10 Sep – Vienna, AT – Waves Festival
15-17 Sep – Oslo, NO – by:Larm
20 Sep – Leipzig, DE – UT Connewitz ^
21 Sep – Hamburg, DE – RBF ^
22 Sep – Berlin, DE – Prachtwerk ^
23 Sep – Cologne, DE – Theater der Wohngemeinschaft ^
24 Sep – Munich, DE – Heppel & Ettlich ^
27 Sep – Nijmegen, NL – Doomrosje ^
29 Sep – Bruges, BE – Cactus ^
% w/ Rodrigo Amarante
^ w/ Dana Gavanski
