Pale Hands Donating Album Proceeds to Non-Profit Organizations

Boston's Pale Hands will release its sophomore album, Graphism tomorrow and you can hear the album in full thanks to the good folks at Vanyaland.

Unfortunately, what was to be a celebratory occasion has turned a somber one for the electro-pop trio given the events of the past two weeks. As a result, the band is haulting further promotion of the album and donating all money that was to their further promotional and touring budgets to various non-profit organizations.

Read a full statement from the band below:
In the fall of 2015, Pale Hands started crafting what would be our sophomore record. We wanted to make an upbeat pop record - one that you could dance to. We started, stopped, started, stopped, started once more and pulled out of magical thin air Graphism - a collection of 8 songs that mean the world to us. We finished the record in late August and set it aside to release this Friday, November 18. Since then we've been honing our live sound and playing some smaller shows to figure out just how our new 3-piece would work.

Then the election happened.

We're going to level with you - it feels a bit detached to be releasing a record this week. With everything going on, we sort of forgot that the date the three of us had been looking forward to since the summer was right on top of us. To a degree, I think we all thought "should we be releasing an album of dance songs right now? Is this what we all need?" What the f are we doing?

Much like everyone else, when something happens in our lives - good, bad, lucky, unfortunate, aggravating, jaw dropping, soul searching and anything in-between - we turn to records. Music has always been a place of better understanding of our lives and the world that surrounds us. The only way we've been able to feel an ounce better about the divisiveness of this election is to throw on some records and promise to get more involved.

That said, every single dime of this record, plus the money we would spend on making a video and touring, will be going to the organizations listed below.

Wolf-Pac
Planned Parenthood
Center for Reproductive Rights
NRDC
International Refugee Assistance Project
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
The Trevor Project
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

If you don't have the money, give your time. If you don't have the time, donate money. If you don't have either, then this record is for you. We want it to be heard and we want it to bring you some comfort, joy and understanding during some truly disorienting, frustrating and frightening times.

We hope it'll help you the way that it's helped us.

Love and Peace,

Pale Hands
Jen, Mike and Nick

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