Exitmusic, the recently divorced bi-coastal duo of Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church, craft dream pop that is as emotional as it is ethereal. Palladino, who is also an actress (including roles in The Irishman, Halt and Catch Fire, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Storytelling, etc.) began writing songs while in her early teens, just a few years before she started acting professionally. Raised in an artistic family that included her opera singer mother and painter grandparents, Palladino experimented on her four-track recorder, creating layered arrangements that evoked atmospheric acts such as Portishead, Radiohead, and Sigur Rós.
Meanwhile, Church developed his singing and songwriting with little more than an acoustic guitar. The pair met when Church moved to New York after spending a year teaching English in India and Taiwan, got married and soon began writing and recording together in 2004. They spent a year learning recording software, experimenting with sounds and released their first album, The Decline of the West. The pair then moved to Los Angeles to further Palladino's acting career, but returned to New York in 2009 when she landed a role in Boardwalk Empire. In 2012, Exitmusic released another album, Passage, before moving over to felte for 2018's The Recognitions.
Aleska lives in Los Angeles once again and Devon stayed in Brooklyn.
Releases:
The Recognitions
FLT-049
