Song Review:: Billlie: cloud palace ~ false awakening- cloud palace

• Release date: 2026 January 27

• Album tracklist: cloud palace, cloud palace - Before moonset mix, cloud palace - Before moonrise mix

• Album runtime: 11 minutes

 There are a couple of things I like about this group and that also amuse me. First, there are three (3) L's in their group name. Second, they often have a massive lack of capital letters in a lot of their song and album titles. Plus, even though I haven't heard a lot of their songs, the ones I have heard, I like. I'm just hesitant to get too into them because girl groups I really like...don't last too long. Still, I can peripherally listen to them when their songs pop up into my general playlists and I can't know too much about them. But I would like more of their songs to listen to. And look at that runtime!

This is an instrumental that feels a bit jazzy mixed with trap. It could have been incredibly easy to put this song into something of more of an easy-listening genre, and they didn't. It starts off there, and I was hoping that it wouldn't stay that mild. Not that it's not pretty and it didn't have some interesting piano work, but the beginning isn't very layered on its own. In the context of the rest of the song, that beginning gets folded into the percussion and gives the entire song incredible depth, especially at the end when the percussion is stripped away and it's just the piano again. It's also got some audience participation snapping, which is wonderful.

As far as I'm concerned, the point of having a group of singers is so that you can multiple people doing something at once. Now, that does get a little bit complicated for the choreography, but this song has multiple instances where you've got multiple things going on vocally at once. Sometimes it's choral singing, sometimes it's with the ad-libs. But this sits right at the edge of too much happening, and the song relaxes and softens right at the very end and takes that edge off. There's not a lot off a cool-down, but there's enough that I'm not completely skidding to a halt at the end of the song.

Not a music video, but this is a pretty cool live recording.