polvo...

and what hstencil said.

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)

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

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.

flip it and reverse it, dude-io.

check out black taj, dave brylawski's new band.

Erectus Monotone is super too (I was raving mystery friend above).

I'm gonna go home tonight and listen to Frozen Like Chandeliers.

http://www.wxyc.org/bandwidth/downloads/bandwidth/Bandwidth-Celebrating_10-Years_of_Internet_Radio_on_WXYC-Chapel_Hill/10%20-%20Black%20Taj%20-%20Woke%20Up%20Tired.mp3

their new record came out a week or so ago and i know they're touring rather soon.

this is what dave says about the band in a fakejazz interview:

http://www.fakejazz.com/fake/archives/2005/04/ncaa_basketball.php

"Black Taj is Grant Tennille from the Idyll Swords, my friend and Inexperience drummer Thomas Atherton, and Steve Popson, who was in Polvo with me, on bass. The record is going to have a few different recording sessions on it. The earliest was from 2002, which we did at Trans Am's studio - NRS - in D.C. Ash Bowie and Brian Quast did a session in Raleigh this year with Brian Walsby on drums. Jerry Kee did a recent session as well. I think we are going to go back to Quanic in Raleigh and get Ash and Brian to re-record a couple of songs this summer. We'll cull the "best" from all those sessions for the album."

I'm a big apologist for "Shapes"!

Polvo are reforming for Explosions In The Sky's ATP next year. I've heard feck all of their music, but I'm still pretty excited about this.

Every time I see this thread revived I a) don't dare posting because I am not articulate enough to do justice to how much I like them and b) fear it is news of them reforming for a date I couldn't go to eventually. Now I'm going to risk the idiocy of a) because part b) has really happened.

(And not even the ATP with Deerhunter, Pissed Jeans, Wooden Shjips and Fuck Buttons, which I was already a little regretful about missing and could just about have been tipped over into attempting to get a chalet with a bunch of strangers on the basis of this announcement)

I heard the dude's guitar work on Helium's Pirate Prude EP and Superball LP and somehow I just KNEW Polvo wouldn't be half as good. The song "Gemini Cusp is fantastcic, though -- although it's corny (read: indie) as all get out

Every time I see this thread revived I a) don't dare posting because I am not articulate enough to do justice to how much I like them and b) fear it is news of them reforming for a date I couldn't go to eventually. Now I'm going to risk the idiocy of a) because part b) has really happened.

I'll be sure to let you know how it goes! But seriously, it will be my first ATP experience so don't mistake me for one of those ridiculous fairweather hipster types who only go to gigs to show off their new hairdos.

(And not even the ATP with Deerhunter, Pissed Jeans, Wooden Shjips and Fuck Buttons, which I was already a little regretful about missing and could just about have been tipped over into attempting to get a chalet with a bunch of strangers on the basis of this announcement)

If it makes you feel better, going to the other one means I'll miss the Meat Puppets.

There needs to be a reissue of that first EP plus all the singles stuff and rarities that never made the albums.

I heard the dude's guitar work on Helium's Pirate Prude EP and Superball LP...

um n00b, that's called a bass. mary was the guitarist.

'Can I Ride'

What a belting lesson that one is. The four note bass line rules

their reunion show down the street in Chapel Hill sold out a month in advance

Cor Crane Secret got a listen today.

ce-le-brate-the new! dark! age! with! us!

"El Rocío" is an underrated epic.

"El Rocio" almost redeems Shapes...

I use "D.D. (S.R.)" as the background music to my iPod games.

*GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG*

I am way too irrationally excited for the Polvo reunion, given that I can't actually make it through any of their albums in one sitting. They need a best of record like whoa.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

New interview:

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

Avalon - Downhill Together

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

Haha yes that is amazing

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)

Speed Stick - Knots

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