In a blog post on her official website, Palmer explained the backstory of how she was obsessed with the Pink Dots as a teenager, and even wrote and directed an experimental dialogue-free play inspired by their album Asylum when she was seventeen.

The two of them spent years trying to find a time to record an album together, but due to struggles in Palmer's personal life, plans always fell through.

On May 19, 2017, Ka-Spel released a four-track studio album called High on Station Yellow Moon that features Palmer on three of the tracks.

AllMusic summarized the album with "At best, I Can Spin a Rainbow feels like the work of two talented artists savoring a long weekend of boundless creativity together, but from an outsider's perspective, the results are a bit too impenetrable to contextualize without having been in the room to witness its genesis.

"[5] Andrew Dorsett of PopMatters deemed the album "insufferable" and that it "sounds like an inside joke, an indulgence on a whim that few others share or can access.