The Purling Hiss frontman teams with Kurt Vile for a record of simple folk songs pairing blissful sounds with plainspoken sentiments. PITCHFORK
“So many of these songs give me chills. I wish I wrote ‘Cheewawa’ (guess I’ll have to cover it!) … Luckily I got to play harmonica and sing ghost vocals on it… I’ve been waiting for this kinda Polizze. I think we all could use these catchy, beautiful jams in our respective quarantines (physical and mental).” Kurt Vile
The debut solo al...
The Purling Hiss frontman teams with Kurt Vile for a record of simple folk songs pairing blissful sounds with plainspoken sentiments. PITCHFORK
“So many of these songs give me chills. I wish I wrote ‘Cheewawa’ (guess I’ll have to cover it!) … Luckily I got to play harmonica and sing ghost vocals on it… I’ve been waiting for this kinda Polizze. I think we all could use these catchy, beautiful jams in our respective quarantines (physical and mental).” Kurt Vile
The debut solo album by Mike Polizze—and his first release for Paradise of Bachelors—finds the erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman and Birds of Maya shredder stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine. Performed entirely by Polizze with longtime friend Kurt Vile (largely live and acoustic) and recorded by War on Drugs engineer Jeff Zeigler, this intimate Philadelphia affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Dizzy Polizzy’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. Long Lost Solace Find finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.
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