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.”
It’s Bandcamp Friday, and we have five new surprise songs for you, in the form of two digital singles from Red River Dialect (Overabundance) and James Elkington (Beechwood Park/Corridor Country). Bandcamp is once again waiving its revenue share today, July 3, and we will do the same for all other digital Bandcamp sales, passing proceeds along to artists.
