Mike Polizze records his debut Lagniappe Session for Aquarium Drunkard on acoustic guitar, sharing his renditions of two traditional titles: Libba Cotten’s “Freight Train” and The Byrds’ version of “Old Blue.”
You’ve heard about the Dog Days, but we’re Cat People at PoB. Use coupon code CATNIGHTS to take 20% off most everything in the PoB webstore. Also, Mega Bog’s Life, and Another vinyl LP and Mike Polizze’s Dizzy Demos tape are now in shops. See Bog live!
Following last month’s release of moonshining ballad “Copper Kettle,” Jake Xerxes Fussell is back with “Hills of Mexico,” a wistful and timely interpretation of a traditional 19th c. ballad about going to Mexico to work the cattle drive as a vaquero, and the hardships and insecurity of underemployment and migrant work.
Mike Polizze’s bittersweet and sunny debut solo album (featuring Kurt Vile)—Uncut’s Album of the Month (“the songs themselves gleam like diamonds”)—is in shops and streaming today. Get lost in what Pitchfork calls “the sonic equivalent of a beer on the beach at sunset.”
The debut solo album by Mike Polizze finds the Purling Hiss frontman 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), this intimate Philadelphia affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Dizzy Polizzy’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. It finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.
Mike Polizze shares the Philadelphia story behind his upcoming solo album Long Lost Solace Find (out July 31), along with new song “Wishing Well” (again feat. Kurt Vile), with American Songwriter, who describe it as “a breezy folk number that has the wondrous, enveloping quality of a daydream.”
Today marks the release of “Cheewawa,” the second single from Long Lost Solace Find, the debut solo album from Mike Polizze, due for release on July 31st. The release is accompanied by a meditative DIY video filmed and edited by Polizze himself while in quarantine outside Philadelphia.
The debut solo album by Mike Polizze finds the Purling Hiss frontman 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), this intimate Philadelphia affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Dizzy Polizzy’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. It finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.
