Housesitter

There’s no real way to say how I feel about this, except for September 8th is now the only day that matters in 2009.  Until then, this song will be on eternal repeat.  And visit merge for, ahem, tour dates.  I can’t say Polvo never disappointed, but I don’t think this new album will.  Check out this review:

“They are still the masters of the ping-ponging guitar acrobatics and crunchy effects put to good use. Their new album, In Prism, out on Merge September 8, slays. How do we know? Because we got a digital copy today and it’s all we’ve been listening to. It’s one of those instant killers that doesn’t suffer any symptoms of I-Warmed-To-It-itis or It-Grew-On-Me-pox. So far we’re thinking album of the year.”

and this little interview excerpt has me feeling VERY good:

With that much time apart, I’m curious if the new music sounds – will people recognize it as Polvo?

“Yes” is the short answer, but it’s different. A little more cohesive. Brian is a very powerful and precise drummer, so I think we’re gonna sound a little tighter than before. But all the other Polvo elements are there. Maybe we’re just a little more fully realized, I guess.

When did you become interested in what is generally labelled as ‘Eastern Music’? I know that means a lot, but…. Did it start out of listening to ’60s rock?

I would say probably. The same as the blues. When you’re 15, 14, you start with rock and roll. You start with Eric Clapton/Cream and Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles. Well, I started with The Beatles a lot earlier; I started with that when I was about 12 or whatever. I think it’s easier to trace the blues back that way, but then after listening to Cream and Eric Clapton, you sort of listen to the sources a little bit more. I would say with Eastern music too, it might have been The Beatles, but once I was in high school and college, I got really into Indian classical music. By the way, on the new album there’s none of that.

Oh, really!?

It’s just a long rock-out.

Oh wow! Okay.

50 minutes of it.

How many songs?

Seven.

So is there one really long one, or are they all about seven minutes?

No, we have one really short one. The rest are 6-8 minutes.

Are there gonna be any of the sort of crazy – well, not crazy – well YEAH! Crazy! – new approaches to the guitar sound, like on “Fractured (Like Chandeliers),” where you just hear it and go, “What the hell is he doing there!?”

That’s more Ash, but yeah, there’s definitely some of that.

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