Palace - Ox (Indie Exclusive Black Cherry Vinyl)

Indie Exclusive Black Cherry Vinyl LP

This is the black cherry pressing of Ox, made for independent record stores. Palace issued the album on CD and in four LP formats: the label's notes name a 180-gram black LP sold through the band's official store alongside this indie edition, and Rough Trade carries a lavender LP limited to 500 copies.

Ox is Palace's fifth studio album and, as DIY reported, the first released on the band's own independent label, through Palace Presents and AWAL. It was recorded in Deptford with Adam Jaffrey, the band's longtime producer, and follows the Greyhound EP of 2025 and the album Ultrasound, released in April 2024.

The announcement names The Band, Townes Van Zandt, Edward Hopper's hushed Americana and life on tour among the ten songs' touchstones. Drummer Matt Hodges has said the record has "a lightness and a momentum to it." The first single, "Kid," was written about longing for a child while on the road, "Dream On" followed it, and "Brown Bread" runs six minutes. Palace's own notes describe an album about watching a child encounter music for the first time and being overcome by gratitude.

The band formed in 2012. Leo Wyndham sings and plays guitar, Rupert Turner plays guitar, Matt Hodges plays drums, and Harry Deacon has played bass since 2018. Their debut album, So Long Forever, came out in 2016, the same year Palace Presents began as a monthly takeover of The George Tavern in London; Life After followed in 2019 and Shoals in 2022. They have played Glastonbury in 2016 and 2019, and Coachella in 2024.

Tracklist

1. Dream On
2. Kid
3. Ohio
4. Denny's
5. Lucky Boy
6. I've Been Laughing
7. Kicking Up Shadows
8. Brown Bread
9. Made My Bed
10. Ox