Painted Palms

Painted Palms crafts shimmering indie rock laced with pop sensibilities, shaped by vintage synth pop influences and modern electronica currents. Cousins Reese Donohue and Christopher Prudhomme formed the project, a partnership that highlights technology's reshaping of how musicians connect across distances. Both were born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, where tight family bonds led the pair to spend considerable time together sharing and discussing music throughout their childhoods. Donohue later relocated to California for college while Prudhomme remained in Louisiana; each continued separate musical work and traded samples of their efforts through email. In 2009, during Donohue's winter break visit home, the cousins began experimenting with a track on Prudhomme's digital recording setup ahead of a family meal. By evening's end they had completed "Falling Asleep," prompting them to recognize stronger collaborative potential. Remote exchanges of loops and melodies persisted until they finished a five-song EP titled Canopy, which they submitted under the Painted Palms name to a prominent music blog. The release drew immediate enthusiasm from listeners, among them Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal, who connected the duo with Secretly Canadian. The label issued a physical edition of Canopy in 2011, after which Painted Palms began performing live, supporting Of Montreal, STRFKR, and Braids on tour. Although Prudhomme eventually joined Donohue in San Francisco, the pair discovered their separate bedroom studio process with online file sharing still produced the strongest outcomes and retained that workflow. In 2013 Painted Palms signed with Polyvinyl Records, which released the single "Carousel" b/w "Click" along with the six-song EP Nothing Lasts Long. Their first full-length album, Forever, appeared in 2014. For 2015's Horizons the duo deliberately altered their approach, convening in a conventional studio alongside engineer Eric Broucek, whose prior credits include LCD Soundsystem.