DOWNLOAD: Ice Palace - "Thoughts/Facts" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Ice Palace - "Phonebook Pillow" (MP3)

I missed the Cloud Cult/Ice Palace show when they played MHOW in April but I've been recently checking out Ice Palace's latest disc.

Wonder Subtly Crushing Us is Ice Place's second CD and their first for Craig Minowa's Earthology Records. The band's music has a lush melancholy overtone that brings to mind comparisons to The Decemberists or Neutral Milk Hotel. The Onion said "[t]he group's bipolar folk-rock hints at what Nirvana might have been if Kurt Cobain had had the chance to grow out of his angst and settle into his mid-thirties."

Ice Palace are currently touring around the Mid-West:
July 25, 2009 -- 11:00PM, Red Stag, Minneapolis
July 31, 2009 -- 8:00PM, Turf Club, St. Paul
Aug 28, 2009 -- 8:00PM, 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis
Aug 29, 2009 -- 8:00PM, Schubas, Chicago, Illinois

Links:
Ice Palace's MySpace Profile