Album Notes

Number Two - Best Albums Of 2006 - Rolling Stone Magazine

"Palm Springs may well have created, and released through their label Random Acts Of Vinyl, the chamber pop album of the year. 'No Hurt Like A Broken Heart' is an immediate pleasure, a record that demands and rewards your full attention and is one of the finest debuts we've heard this year" 8/10 - No Ripcord

"Palm Springs are two visionary troubadours whose debut album is an outstanding, flowing, mesmerizing experience that transports you somewhere else. It is an enchanting, seamlessly hypnotic, musical memoir, the foundations of which are fantastically diverse and inventive uses of instrumentation, alongside beautifully observed and articulated lyrics" 8/10 - Is This Music?

Album of the Month - Mr Dead and Mrs Free

"Ambitious lo-fi country and dreamy laid-back ambience, with moments of melancholic beauty" - Rock 'N' Reel

"No Hurt Like A Broken Heart is an album that creaks with heartache and sadness, an at times painfully honest and intense affair that slowly gets under your skin, gradually winning you over. A stark, beautiful record, Palm Springs have delivered a debut full of desolate gorgeousness and swooning heartache" - UK Music Review

"Folk that caresses the ears and melts the heart. Palm Springs deliver the panacea for musical happiness" - LP Magazine

"Brilliant debut from Brighton tunesmiths. Shards of longing stabbing an acoustic heart" - Recommended Release - Rounder Records

"The ten tracks of gentle, ethereal chamber-folk spread themselves over my conscious like a shadowy dream, all half-light echoes and emotional memories. My focus enthralled, all around me, motionless. A thing of wonder and no less" - The Source

"More lush, melancholic, painful beauty from Brighton's Palm Springs, whose 7"s have been gaining them a worldwide reputation. The LP is exactly what we could have hoped for, more of their exquisitly delicate, sparsely quiet, honest pop spread out over the course of an LP. Just great" - Rough Trade Records

"Twinkling, pulsating melancholy of yearning vocals over lush orchestration on the almost perfect ten tracks of this really rather special album" 9/10 - Norman Records

"An album that demands your full attention to appreciate the sophisticated orchestrations and melodies, from a most promising English duo" 9/10 - Tatapoum