“Songwriter El Kempner turns pandemic-era stress into great songs”
“The Brooklyn band’s fourth album sees El Kempner exposing their most tender emotions while embracing them”
“Writing with painful exactitude, El Kempner crafts a vividly rendered breakup album that’s always threatening to explode.”
“Either/or decisions constantly shape our stories. Would you go back to see how your life turned out if you made a different choice at that key moment that still keeps you awake? El Kempner, aka Palehound, says no on ‘Independence Day’, a song which captures the second guessing that can seep into even the most sensible of breakups. “Even if I could, it would kill me to look back / No I don’t wanna ”
“Palehound builds a bigger picture with Eye On The Bat”
