More By Artist: Polvo
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Exploded Drawing [ Touch and Go Records / CD - released 30/Apr/1996 ] Polvo's Exploded Drawing takes listeners on a sonic journey that encompasses nearly every kind of sound that a guitar has been known to make, and a few that might be unheard of until now. The group has worked on their intricate, changeable sound... |
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In Prism [ Merge Records / CD - released 8/Sep/2009 ] Polvo's first studio album since 1997's Shapes, 2009's In Prism is a solid return to mathy form. Although 12 years is a long hiatus, it's hardly noticeable that time has passed, with the exception of a few machinery and personnel updates: trading in... |
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Shapes [ Touch and Go Records / CD - released 23/Sep/1997 ] Succinctly, Shapes is a fascinating record that takes great liberties with rock-n-roll. They combine fuzzed-out blasts ala Blue Cheer with quasi-psychedelic twanging and droning. Being rock dogs more than a little trippy, the unsuspecting listener is... |
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Today's Active Lifestyles [ Merge Records / CD - released 25/Jul/1995 ] Never a band to follow formulaic musical styles, Polvo once again shakes things up with its twisted song structures of multiple tempos and intricate, distorted guitars. Today's Active Lifestyles goes from the raucous "Thermal Treasure," with its... |
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Cor-Crane Secret (Reissue White & Blue Vinyl LP) [ Merge / LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] In January 1992, fresh off the glory that was the band's 1991 double-7" debut, Polvo headed into Duck Kee Studios in Raleigh, NC-aka the place where a lot of early Merge stuff was recorded-to track what became their debut full-length. Cor-Crane... |
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Today's Active Lifestyles (Reissue Red & Yellow Vinyl LP)) [ Merge / LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Today's Active Lifestyles, the second full-length by North Carolina rockers Polvo, did exactly what a sophomore LP is supposed to do: It expanded the ideas put forth in the first album, gave them a new spin and shine, and presented the "where we are... |
