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so, irritating college rockers with wonky time signatures and self-conscious obtuseness issues. or, erm, the above, but in a good way?

me? well, i love this eclipse. great mini-lp, perfects the stop-start aesthetic. but its pop, and you can sing along and stuff too. first track off exploded drawing is also ace, but rest of album is mediocre. celebrate the new dark age is supposed to be good but i've never heard it. opinion?

― gareth, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was just going to put up a thread about Mathrock cos what exactly is it? I always think of it like scratchy Gang of Four style punk with odd time signatures like Shellac. But are Polvo mathrock or are they prog rock? I heard "Unexploded drawings" and it was terrible. Irritating college rockers with wonky time signatures is definitely not my bag. Terrible song titles too, "Feather of forgiveness"?

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Once again I take my woolly hat off to the obscurity of which you folks are capable. I thought this thread must be about a car or a sweet or something.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think "wonky" is the perfect word to describe Polvo.

― adam, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God, yes, _Exploded Drawing_ is wretched. Awful. Painful to listen to. Surprisingly so.

Math rock...hmm...someone with more patience than I should address this query. While folks like Slint & Rodan were tagged as "math rock" (if I read my CMJs correctly), it's been attatched to folks that are playing something akin to a tres wanky Gang of Four. Lots of bass noodling. Not very melodic. Plenty of loud / soft dynamics to give you _Nevermind_ flashbacks. (This is stereotypical, mind you.)

I believe Don Caballero are the epitome of "math rock". Their 2nd album was an impenetrable fortress of wacked time-signatures, Black- Sabbath-on-shrooms riffing, and multi-limbed drum soloing. (Their later efforts are, supposedly, better.)

― David Raposa, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked Celebrate the New Dark Age, but it's been a while since I've listened to Polvo. Always liked them, though.

― Kerry Keane, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to have Cor-Crane Secret and Today's Active Lifestyles and I liked them okay in a sub-Sonic Youth kinda way. Ultimately, they never really left much of an impression on me other than they were okay. So I suppose that says it all.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

lenola used to do a more listenable blend of polvo, not sure if they still do.

― keith, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Celebrate the New Dark Age is their masterpiece. No need for anything else! Everything they do feels unnatural and slightly claustrophobic, like sweaty anthropologists playing with some ornate Rock Device they'd unearthed from the Gobi Desert. After Dark Age some jangly out-of-control element was lost. But Cor-Crane Secret I like a lot, as well as Today's Active Lifestyles. They rocked, were great when I saw them at CB's, they knew they were math-y but it's something to laugh about when you're rocking so hard. They tear into themselves and the obscurantist trainspotter tendencies of too-smart "indie rock" at the time in "Every Holy Shroud" -

Celebrate the new dark age with us -
Calculate the irony with someone you can trust.
Feel the holy shroud that keeps us warm -
Show me something round and i'll analyse the form.
Give us something brown that sticks like glue -
I'll recognize the taste and appreciate it too.
This is how it works when we write well -
Let me hear a bomb I'll compare it to a bell.
I don't understand why you don't get it -
I can take the time to insure that you regret it.
We are seeing through your weak designs -
Fellow connoisseurs flip a coin and make a sign

Guitars sounding powerful yet awkward, like an adolescent robot stork.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There was a Polvo record which irritating Humphrey used to play all the time at the Commune in Albany. I have no idea which, but it was one of the few records he had that I liked. (That and Bailterspace. I've found the Bailterspace record in question, but never figured out the Polvo. I bought a Polara record once thinking it was them but it wasn't.) It was quirky, off-kiltre college post-rock, but it was very poppy, hummable post-rock. I wish I knew which record it was. This was about '92 or so. Any guesses?

― masonic boom, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably Cor-Crane secret, the 1st LP. They were fairly lo-fi in those days, at least compared to the sound they eventually cottoned to.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

I really liked Exploded Drawing...it was one of my favourite albums of the year it came out. Weird lonely summer that year. Everything else I've heard by them is just wretched.

― james, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I finally bought Today's Active Lifestyles about a month ago, having had Time Isn't On My Side stuck in my head for six years. I hadn't heard that song at any point in the interim, and it sounded exactly the same as I had been recalling it.

This is a good thing.

― emil.y, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

celebrate the new dark age with us? no thanks shitwads. what a fucking awful record. while a FEW of the tunes are bearable most of them suck in that "how can we not sound like sonic youth" trying too hard stop/startery and the singing and the lyrics SHITE it's like they might be giants having a cocaine fuelled mutual wankfest in an english lit lecture on beat poets. today's active lifestyles i liked but it wasn't anything of it's own enough. i remember the tunes but will i ever play the record again? ever?

― bob snoom, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Ranked:

1. Today's Active Lifestyles
2. Cor-Crane Secret
3. Celebrate The New Dark Age
4. Exploded Drawing
5. Polvo
6. Shapes
7. This Eclipse

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

And don't forget "Colonial Arms" on the Pop/Narcotic compilation, my favorite song of theirs

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i like "tiara fetish" aka "watch the nail"... those "errant handclaps... spaced minutes apart"™gygax! enterprises

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Shapes" and "This Eclipse" are the only ones I want to still listen to, because for once, they sounded like their own, as opposed to remaining tied to the words "math" and "odd"... although "Today's Active Lifestyles" was my favorite for the longest time. ("Action Vs. Vibe" is their greatest tune ever.)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

otm gygax!

it's funny how opinions change. in 93,94,95, polvo felt untouchable and now to hear such fire pointed at their asian noodling, it's kind of amusing. has history revised itself? (or maybe just caught up?)

― msp, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i got the clock face-down!
i guess i slept all day just so i could be awake right now!
i'm flying south with a running start from the roof of my house!

polvo is the answer to my hotmail favourite band secret question, or something.

haterz get trampled by my sacred cow.

― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone ever here Polvo's version of "Mexican Radio" on a Planned Parenthood benefit sampler? The compilation also included such gems as Sonic Youth singing "Ca Plaine Pour Moi" and Chia Pet (a.k.a. the staff of Sassy magazine) doing "Don't You Want Me Baby."

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's definitely time to start a fanatical Polvo cult a la Lifter Puller so they could be persuaded to get back together and maybe do a little mini-reunion-tour. Not all their stuff was great, but enough of it was, and besides can you really name one other band that sounds anything remotely like them? (Lenola? WTF? Maybe in terms of production aesthetics, but Lenola are way more shoegazery.) They were one of those bands that had such a unique sound that no matter how wanky/boring they could be at times (I was never able to get all the way through Shapes) they should still be remembered and appreciated.

Three words: Today's. Active. Lifestyles.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 28 August 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

nick,

ash lives in our hood.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Cool. If you run into him before I do, ask him what the hell he's been up to since that Libraness album.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

there was this bay area band called Uberhund who I thought were really good but even they admitted at the time "Yeah, we sound like Polvo".

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Ash Bowie = greatest rock name ever

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone ever here Polvo's version of "Mexican Radio"...

yes! that ruled! superchunk's devo cover was a favorite back in the day...

"freedom of choice" tracklisting....

1. Ca Plane Pour Moi performed by Sonic Youth - 3:58
2. Rock & Roll Girl performed by Muffs - 2:21
3. Destination Unknown performed by Erectus Monotone - 3:14
4. How Much More performed by Redd Kross - 3:07
5. 5' 1" performed by Tiny Lights - 3:37
6. Pump It Up performed by Mudhoney - 3:09
7. The Wait performed by Das Damen - 3:11
8. Tainted Love performed by Finger - 3:47
9. Wishing performed by It's O.K. - 4:10
10. Dreaming performed by Yo La Tengo - 2:59
11. Wuthering Heights performed by White Flag - 4:00
12. I Got You performed by Connells - 4:06
13. Homosapien performed by Big Dipper - 4:50
14. Mexican Radio performed by Polvo - 3:23
15. Antmusic performed by Hypnolovewheel - 3:56
16. Don't You Want Me Baby performed by Chia Pet - 3:43
17. Hero Worship performed by Permanent Green Light - 5:01
18. Girl U Want performed by Superchunk - 2:35

― msp, Thursday, 28 August 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

DEAR FUCKING LORD CHIA PET WHY GOD WHY BRING UP SUCH HORRIDNESS FROM THE PAST..

(haha, i still have that CD. Still kinda disappointing tho' :( Youth's "Ca Plain Pour Moi" cover rocks it, as well as Erectus Monotone's "Destination Unknown" cover)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 28 August 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite Polvo track was always "Can I Ride" from the Polvo EP. That said, I've never been that big of a Polvo fan. I always liked Unwound better. (not that the two are in any way connected or similar but in my head they are/were)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 August 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Why the hate for Exploded Drawing? Granted, that's the only one I own (though I've heard Today's Active Lifestyles and Celebrate the New Dark Age) -- but I've always really liked it. (Hearing "Crumbling Down" on college radio is what got me into the band.) What's better about their other stuff?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 August 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Exploded Drawing is an easy target for haters because it's longer and more hit-and-miss than other Polvo albums. I appreciate the album's ambitions, but I still prefer the EPs and Today's Active Lifestyles. Also, is it just me or do the guitars on Exploded sound a lot more clipped and metallic than on other albums? I don't think that particular production decision worked well for them.

Yancey: I can understand the Polvo/Unwound connection, since I got into both bands at around the same time. There sure was an awful lot of that kind of indistinct-roar guitar dissonance in the early 90s, wasn't there? Ah, good times.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, that's the connection for me too. But while Polvo records have slowly disappeared from my record collection, there are days (more and more of them) when I would consider Unwound my favorite band ever. (no song does what I want a song to do as well as "Fiction Friction." I mean, holy fuck that song is perfect.)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 August 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I like everything they ever did, ever.

― hstencil, Thursday, 28 August 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

disappointed that gygax rates this eclipse last. i would rate it first

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Cor Crane Secret is my favorite, arguably because it's the first one, and I'm sentimental that way. But maybe it's because it's the least wonky. And "Channel Changer" still whoops my butt.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it's all about "lazy comet"...

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a vinyl copy of Today's Active Lifestyles with the lions on it that I stole from my college radio station... I think I sold it for $15 to a used record store.

I also wonder how Polvo has aged... I'd guess not very well.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Why did I say I heard "Crumbling Down" on college radio? I heard it on WXRT's indie show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i got the clock face down!
i guess i slept all day just so i could be awake right now!
i'm flying south with a running start from the roof of my house!

and what hstencil said.

― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"my kimono" is one of the best songs by anyone ever.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the openers from their records were easily some of their best stuff. Vibracobra, Fractured Like Chandeliers, Thermal Treasure, Fast Canoe, Bat Radar.... Polvo kicked ass.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

im early in the midst of a mid 90s squally indierock phase, on the strength of buying "exploded drawing" and brainiac's "hissing prigs..." two days ago. my friend raves about erectus monotone. any thoughts?

also, from what i have:
1. todays active lifestyles (OTM about all songs mentioned so far - lazy comet, my kimono, thermal treasure, but ESPECIALLY time isnt on my side - that synth solo is one of the finest kitchen-sink pop/rock moments i can think of...)
2. celebrate the new dark age
3. cor-crane secret

(ill update when i get a little more familiar with exploded drawing)

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 30 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

at my college radio station the md had written a little review on the jewel box of their new cd at the time (today's active lifestyles, maybe) which ended, "how do they make those guitar sounds?" right below it someone answered, "ASK THURSTON MOORE"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 30 July 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, yeah, but their songs don't sound like Sonic Youth songs at all!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

technique being another story but i can agree at least from the chiming/dissonant open-chording resultant from obscure tunings that are frequent in early polvo/sy records.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the tunings are similar, but i think polvo's tones might be bassier, and definitely more processed than SY's in a lot of cases.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Polvo sounds thinner, more twangy, and more metallic to me (as in, like, iron ingots). As if they string up their guitars with banjo strings or something. SY's stuff sounds thicker and more enveloping to me, and more driving. Polvo's guitar sound is probably just cleaner. The odd little curlicues they add sound like just that, ephemera, rather than being magnified into huge shardwaves of distortion by pedals.

x-post haha see I think polvo is the ultimate treble band!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

both guitarists definitely had two very different styles of attack. ash was definitely more of the "out"/eastern influence where as dave was the more pop/rock of the two.

they definitely used cheaper guitars then sonic youth which explains some of the variance in tones. i'm just explaining that tunings played a pretty significant factor in their "sound" which was largely a sonic youth influence.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i really liked their song on that soundtrack - you know the one - Half Cocked?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ash was definitely more of the "out"/eastern influence where as dave was the more pop/rock of the two.

flip it and reverse it, dude-io.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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They were my favorite band was I was 16. Not so much these days.

Siberia is way better their previous reunion album, but it still sounds like a bunch of older guys covering unreleased Polvo songs.

― TetrisAttack, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 23:16 (twelve years ago)

That's because the upbeat songs are great chase scene music!

Xpost

― Evan, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 04:10 (twelve years ago)

The hippy was gone before the lights came on

― gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 13:44 (twelve years ago)

I actually thought "Beggar's Bowl" went in the direction I always wanted them to go in. Never felt like they rocked hard enough. Even at their most rocking in the past, like "Fractured Like Chandeliers" or "Every Holy Shroud", it never quite KICKED ASS like "Beggar's Bowl." Does the new album rectify this?

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 15:44 (twelve years ago)

Uhh, it's definitely propulsive, but it's not necessarily the surprise potential alt-rock hit direction that Beggar's Bowl was. It is fantastic, though!

― Evan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 15:57 (twelve years ago)

Also I don't know I think they've definitely rocked just as hard or harder on Cor-Crane Secret at least.

― Evan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:00 (twelve years ago)

"light, raking" is a surprise keyboard jam

― adam, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:12 (twelve years ago)

that song is so well timed for the start of autumn

― gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:14 (twelve years ago)

keyboard bit is vv goofy but i love it anyhow

― gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:15 (twelve years ago)

new record sounds fine but i wish the sound was dirtier, like it was back in the 90's..

― nostormo, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:53 (twelve years ago)

Could be dirtier, but I expected some conservatism. Same with the last one.

― Evan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:52 (twelve years ago)

relatively

― Evan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:56 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

I didn't realize my pre-order of Siberia would come with a signed poster! Maybe I just forgot?

― Evan, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 22:58 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

I have tried to start #AshBowieWednesday on Twitter but to no avail. :)

― jaymc, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:27 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

Weird, this old band of John Dwyer (Ohsees, Coachwhips, Pink and Brown, etc.) and Brian Gibson (Lightning Bolt) sounds exactly like early Polvo, I mean guitar moves completely copped from the S/T and Cor-crane albums. Pretty fun to listen to actually, minus a little throwaway action here and there:

https://soundcloud.com/daylongs/sets/tar-aiym-krang-ii

I mean, in 1997 I was in the exact same headspace as these dudes.

― grandavis, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:21 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

RIP Eddie Watkins, you ruled:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA9LPMOqpCc

― grandavis, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:15 (nine years ago)

I will always love these records, yet another bummer. His drumming was perfect for mark 1 of this band.

― grandavis, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:17 (nine years ago)

One of the most formative records for me period. My favorite EP of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3wrxfkEbQQ

― grandavis, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:21 (nine years ago)

Again, the drumming is perfect on that record for the sound/approach.

― grandavis, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:25 (nine years ago)

Ffs I just played TAL (again) today

RIP

― Master of Treacle, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:27 (nine years ago)

Argh! That's awful!!

― Evan, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:29 (nine years ago)

That's a real shame, I love Polvo but especially the earlier stuff. RIP.

― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:35 (nine years ago)

Blasting "Every Holy Shroud" right now.

― grandavis, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:36 (nine years ago)

Crazy, he (and Ash I think?) was a chef at 411 West on Franklin Street wayyyyy back in the day when Chapel Hill was one of the coolest places on the planet.

His son said on FB that it was completely unexpected, passing in his sleep.

From what I know of him over the past 20 years, he was a hard working family man who loved his wife and children more than anything.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:49 (nine years ago)

Super shitty news indeed

― real orgone kid (NickB), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:50 (nine years ago)

I mean, I listened to a lot of Bowie and Prince in my life, but I've probably listened to more of Polvo.

What a very nice, sweet gentleman... who also was a ferocious drummer for the first 6 years of that crazy band.

When he left, I felt Polvo was never quite the same.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:53 (nine years ago)

i wouldn't change a thing about those early polvo records. way too young of course. rip.

― call all destroyer, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:54 (nine years ago)

i was feeling glum and then the purple bear popped up on my ipod <3

― real orgone kid (NickB), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:47 (nine years ago)

i'm so excited i could just explode
cross your fingers and it might get shown
i told my parents to stay up late
but it's half past two
and there's been a mistake

― real orgone kid (NickB), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:49 (nine years ago)

RIP

so he was the drummer up to and including Exploded Drawing? such amazing records for many reasons, definitely including the drumming. sad I never saw the original lineup live

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 12:05 (nine years ago)

Yeah, Brian Walsby replaced him before Shapes and after Exploded Drawing... sometime in 96/97.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:12 (nine years ago)

I've driven (literally) my wife crazy drumming along to his parts on the steering wheel many many times.

― Evan, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:25 (nine years ago)

Cranking "Exploded Drawing" so loudly right now. Haven't listened to this for 10 years or so (cause I wore it out so heavily when it came out it is kind of internalized forever hah hah). So damn good.

― grandavis, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:26 (nine years ago)

"Exploded Drawing" is so awesome - that was my go to on hearing the news - damn good drum record.

― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:30 (nine years ago)

RIP

― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:30 (nine years ago)

I had the t-shirts on the left and the right:
http://i.imgur.com/21nHrUD.jpg

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 02:53 (nine years ago)

four weeks pass...

this video is amazing, and so is this song. DISCUSS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMa4-d3JW-8

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 21:56 (nine years ago)

I love that song. Cool guitar solo and nice outro synth doodles too

― real orgone kid (NickB), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 22:11 (nine years ago)

love that warbly guitar thing in the middle and the end. how fucking cool is that?

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 22:19 (nine years ago)

They do a good job of writing classic rock-esque anthems without really sounding like anyone else at all

― real orgone kid (NickB), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 22:20 (nine years ago)

Fantastic song. In Prism was my favorite album of 2009, but I couldn't get into Siberia for some reason. I guess I have to try again.

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 27 May 2016 08:30 (nine years ago)

love the filigree, not so much the song. my favorite polvos tend to be fragmentary, abrasive, only secretly tuneful.

― like $500 billion in stuffed fart sales and I have an idea (contenderizer), Friday, 27 May 2016 13:06 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

Emil from Holy Sons/Grails/Om covers them in the latest episode of his excellent podcast: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1633582233421734&id=1280469688732992

― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 15 March 2018 17:35 (seven years ago)

The closing credits of the above podcast contains an amazing lost/forgotten Polvo-related track from Dave Brylawski:

Idyll Swords - "Autumn In Empire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PATFus6yUf8

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:18 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

Totally missed that the Can I Ride ep got reissued as a mini album last year with the two songs off the Vibracobra single stuck on the end. Looks like it was some sort of record club edition? Gone now though - FUCK

Cor Crane Secret and Today's Active Lifestyles get a vinyl reissue this coming week - i kind of want them to replace my own long gone copies but it looks like they've uglified the covers for some reason

― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:50 (five years ago)

New interview:

https://www.talkhouse.com/polvo-finally-appreciates-their-own-music-sort-of/

― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 28 February 2020 19:51 (five years ago)

Avalon - Downhill Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQKhsJTrCmo

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 28 February 2020 20:10 (five years ago)

Haha yes that is amazing

― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 28 February 2020 20:14 (five years ago)

five months pass...

https://vimeo.com/4531300

~30min HD pro-shot interview/live footage (warts n all) from the 2009 reunion era:

Fast Canoe
Enemy Insects (loose jam outro)
Every Holy Shroud (new slower intro, spacey long middle section)

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 20 August 2020 06:09 (five years ago)

one year passes...

Speed Stick - Knots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnO0wp-YYKA

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 22:12 (three years ago)

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