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Beneath The Palms

by The Movement

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1.
Ocho Rios 04:18
2.
Hola 03:55
3.
Mile High 03:21
4.
Echo 03:19
5.
Moonshine 02:59
6.
Small Axe 04:05
7.
Sweet Life 04:13
8.
Habit 04:19
9.
Gift 04:08
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11.
Get Ready 04:04

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CREDITS:

----Recorded at The Compound Studio… outside on the front porch!
Valley Center, CA
Engineer: Shelby Meddock
Mixed by: Shelby Meddock

1. Ocho Rios
2. Hola
3. Mile High
5. Moonshine
7. Sweet Life
9. Gift
11. Get Ready
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Recorded at Sugar Shack
Bonita Springs, FL
Engineer: Alex Casement
Mixed by: Brendan Dane

4. Echo
6. Small Axe
8. Habit
10. Another Man’s Shoes

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Album Mastered by: Danny Kalb in Columbus, OH
Artwork: Kc Cowan
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Album Review:
From The Pier: www.thepier.org/review-the-movement-beneath-the-palms/

This all acoustic album better identifies The Movement as being side by side, showing fans how well they sound when performing raw & uncut. If you’re looking for an all acoustic album in the realm of Slightly Stoopid’s Live & Direct: Acoustic Roots, look no further than this surprise release by The Movement.

Beneath The Palms includes Josh Swain on vocals & acoustic rhythm guitar, while Gary Jackson plays the drums as we hear Jason Schmidt on acoustic lead guitar, providing back-up vocals with occasional bass. Alific contributes keys during the Sugarshack session on songs “Echo”, “Small Axe”, “Habit”, and “Another Man’s Shoes”.

Josh’s soulful vulnerability can be heard through his raspy, nasally & sometimes slurred delivery, best compared to a down the middle cross between Slightly Stoopid’s Kyle McDonald and Sublimes Bradley Nowell.

This is every bit of a live acoustic album as you’ll hear with offbeat whistling, talking, yelling, shout-outs & heavy breathing. Performing acoustic and stripped down music shouldn’t be perfect or over-produced. All of those unplanned nuances, noises and effects that naturally make their way onto the recording, is all the extra production that’s needed for any Acoustic release.

This is an album that you turn up to JAM, not to bump. It screams energy with soul coming off the free spirited performance of aggressive finger plucking & subtle drums with occasional keys. You can hear what each instrument is doing and how it’s communicating with the other parts, enabling an intimidate experience with the music for the listener.

There couldn’t be a better example of both spirit & soul, then on the performance & cover of Bob Marley’s “Small Axe”. This is the albums best performance and now one of my favorite covers. It’s not just the singing and the playing, but the overall emotion that affectionately pours out, making it one of the more captivating songs on the album.

Some of the stand-out songs for me were “Ocho Rios”, “Hola”, “Small Axe” and “Habit”. There weren’t any songs that I skipped & I did become a new fan of older songs that didn’t win me over on previous releases with “Another Man’s Shoes”, “Sweet Life”, “Gift” and “Mile High”. All of the songs were enjoyable, but the aforementioned just seem to elicit more emotion, spirit & soul.

They revisit songs from each of their previous albums, with the exception of One More Night (when Josh Swain wasn’t in the band). Even songs where former vocalist Jordan Miller was previously featured, his parts go unnoticed and unquestioned as Josh makes the song his own in a stripped down environment.

The Movement does a fine job with making their past songs a nostalgic memory of what they were, but new & innovative enough to further appreciate the alternative mix. This was the case with their cover of Sublime’s “Get Ready”, “Hola” as well as hearing “Habit” with the subtle addition of Alific on keys.

Beneath The Palms isn’t a ground breaking album and they didn’t reinvent the wheel, nor did they have to. This is music being performed and enjoyed the way it was intended. It’s live & raw with natural energy that you can’t help but to gravitate towards. There are a lot of bands that hide behind the production of a studio or playing live on top of a click-track, but Beneath The Palms further displays that The Movement can deliver just fine in its primitive form.

I was a bit disappointed that newer songs weren’t introduced and performed. Beneath The Palms, however, is a release that could be a great first impression to any new Movement fan and for longtime fans, it’s enough for you to drool over. This album reaffirms The Movement’s side by side chemistry & musical depth by solely & confidently relying on their own raw talent to deliver something truly enjoyable.


Written & Reviewed By: Mike Patti

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released November 24, 2014

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