polvo...

Super fucking pumped for this. My buddies from St. Louis flew in last night just for this show.

FYI, info about the weather and what's happening with the show tonight:
http://twitter.com/SeaportMusicNYC

Let's hope Ian Hunter intervenes with the rain god to protect them.

yikes.

sadly, I may pass....

dont give up yet they moved the show to brooklyn bowl in williamsburg. bands play at 10pm dont miss it. its indoors now.

They were awesome!!

aw, I figured it was off. missed it. ah well.

oh what the hell, i'll go see them tonight

Huh? In Maryland? Have fun!

was raining was sad didnt go oh

jesus h they were great! vibracobra, batradar, bombs that fall from your eyes, city spirit, fast canoe, feather of forgiveness, titletrack, thermal treasure, tilebreaker, and two new ones. pretty rad setlist imo.

Yeah thats at least really close to the setlist they played in Brooklyn (can't remember everything exactly)!

ah...mmm...leaked...
...arrr...sounds fucking awesome...ahhh

hmm

more or less half quiet post rock songs - sounds kinda like sonic youth' Murray Street influenced,
and half more catchy-straightforward-loud-math-rock songs that continue the 90's Polvo/albini tradition.

overall it sounds like an enjoyable,satisfying record, nothing new but thats not what's expected from them. nice continuation of their 90's stuff - like those 10 years or so were just an illusion- they picked up exactly where they stopped,
with the same guitar tuning and all the other polvo schticks.
great reunion record.

streaming on the merge site too. listening now...

i'm glad pitchfork gave it 8.1 cause i almost thought i was the only one who liked this album!
(cause of the lack of posts about it)

i didn't love it but i will give it another go

i'm waiting for physical release yo

i'm digging this a bunch

just bought tickets to see them this saturday!

so after spending a couple days with this i think i'm mostly struck by how pretty a lot of it is...like instead of consciously subverting and fucking up every riff they realized it's more effective to do that 75% of the time and it makes the other 25% sound even better.

i'll admit on the second half i kind of wanted them to just play something really abrasive and old-polvo but that obviously was not the goal--this record is a little moodier, a little lower-key.

the first half pretty much kills tho.

i'll admit on the second half i kind of wanted them to just play something really abrasive and old-polvo but that obviously was not the goal--this record is a little moodier, a little lower-key.

I think this will make me warmer to the record, actually.

I've never heard of Polvo before this new disc, and I hate the term math-rock (makes me think of prog, I guess). But I'm digging the jagged guitar sound on the eMusic soundscans.

yeah it's a bad term and it doesn't apply to polvo any more than it does to like, sonic youth or something.

i never understood what math rock was supposed to mean

i think it is for don cab and no other band

I think I've read people call Battles a "math-rock" band. Maybe Rush, too?

if you didn't listen to math rock in the 90s, you obviously won't understand what it was supposed to mean. it's not that hard to grasp, and it is instantly identifiable.

i would agree that there is a particular type of 90s indie rock band that could be grouped together--i think the issue is more the term "math rock" being used for that group.

It was invented by a friend of ours as a derogatory term for a band me and James (Lo) played in called Wider. But his whole joke is that he'd watch the song and not react at all, and then take out his calculator to figure out how good the song was. So he'd call it math rock, and it was a total diss, as it should be.

the only acceptable use of it, for me, involves a calculator.

hahah where's that quote from?

if you didn't listen to math rock in the 90s, you obviously won't understand what it was supposed to mean. it's not that hard to grasp, and it is instantly identifiable.

Indeed:

Math rock is a rhythmically complex, guitar-based style of experimental rock music that emerged in the late 1980s. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), angular melodies, and dissonant chords.

Wiki is all-knowing, all-seeing.

the quote's from here, it looks like

http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6502-chavez/

Polvo were always tagged as 'lo-fi' by the press at the time IIRC, which I never really understood either, speaking as someone that was also listening to the Dead C and all that Siltbreeze stuff.

que do you even listen to music

yeah. i do sometimes!

Math rock is a rhythmically complex, guitar-based style of experimental rock music that emerged in the late 1980s. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), angular melodies, and dissonant chords.

so is Fugazi math rock? because Fugazi does all these things.

i mean again are we disagreeing that there is a category here or that the best name for that category is "math rock"?

fugazi is DC post-punk, too song-oriented to be considerd math rock. but you are correct, though--all those elements are present in fugazi.

i mean again are we disagreeing that there is a category here or that the best name for that category is "math rock"?

As I said above, I just hate the term "math rock."

yeah me too, totally

'Heavily Slint-influenced rock in weird time signatures of a slightly mechanical bent' is surely a succinct genre name we can all rally round? Otherwise 'math rock' is fine by me.

This thread makes me want to listen to June of 44 now.

back in the 90's whenever someone brought up the term it would remind me of a tic a lot of the "math rock" drummers seemed to have (which i always assumed was copped from slint) hitting just the bell of a crash cymbal in an odd place in a song, like once or twice. it's sort of hard to explain

sheesh! i cannot believe the seething rage with which i dismissed polvo & particularly "celebrate.." way upthread. i think that was more to do with the powerlessness of having no money and sleeping on people's floors ages back roundabout that time. somewhere along the line i turned into a raging polvo fanatic and "today's active lifestyles" is one of my favourites lps ever, and oh yes i am stoked about in prism which i did not know about until i read this thread today.

polvo always seemed "pretty" and "melodic" not so much "math" to me

they are actually quite dissonant

This thread makes me want to listen to June of 44 now.

Pretty much the first thing I do tonight once I've got the kids asleep, is to put on some Rodan I think. Still need to hear In Prism.

rodan "rusty" is crucial. first time i heard that album i was so blown away.

the dissonance is in service of a lyrical style - theyre never purely abrasive