![]() A question that is more keen and all the more rousing: Why have they refused to leave? ![]() The query assumes that the group (which in addition to the two aforementioned members also features keyboardist Simon Mavin and drummer Perrin Moss) did in fact journey elsewhere. Where have they been? That’s the common refrain, but one that misses the point by a bit more than a mile. “There’s less of the nerves,” she continues. Which, considering the baggage around it-a breast cancer diagnosis, a collectively agreed-upon yearlong respite, and a bout of general music industry malaise-is to say that she is really telling me how she chooses to carry out the faith of living. She’s telling me how she feels about the release of the group’s third album, Mood Valiant, their first in six years, last Friday. It is, I’ve been told, quite cold outside. She and bassist Paul Bender are in front of separate computers in mid-June in Melbourne, where the troupe is based. ![]() ![]() “I guess I basically had this obsession that I thought I was going to die before this album came out,” admits the singer Nai Palm, the lead vocalist of the Grammy-nominated band Hiatus Kaiyote. An artist named after liquid fire flashes a gold and obsidian ring and, by the way, just lit our conversation aflame too.
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