We are proud to present the outrageously titled collection Dizzy Demos: 2 Tickets to Cheeseburger in Paradise, comprising Dizzy Polizzy’s original homebrew demos for six of the twelve final album tracks, along with two studio outtakes from the Long Lost Solace Find sessions, “Sign of Life” and “Sunny Sundays.” Listen digitally wherever you harvest sounds from the ether, or pick up a florid green cassette, featuring alien/pyramid/burger art (and a two-cat centerfold) by the man himself and available exclusively via direct order from the PoB website and Bandcamp page, in an edition limited to 300 copies only.
Highlights
- Florid green high-bias cassette tape features alien/pyramid/burger art (and a two-cat centerfold) by Mike Polizze, on a two-panel J-card.
- Available exclusively via direct order from the PoB website and Bandcamp page, in an edition limited to 300 copies only.
- RIYL Purling Hiss, Birds of Maya, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Nap Eyes, the War on Drugs, Ted Lucas, Daniel Johnston, Jonathan Richman, the Clean, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead
- Artist page/bio/tour dates
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Tracklist
A1. “Sign of Life” 2:21
A2. “Marbles (demo)” 1:45
A3. “Sit Down (demo)” 3:16
A4. “Eyes Reach Across (demo)” 3:53
B1. “Sunny Sundays” 2:41
B2. “Revelation (demo)” 4:36
B3. “Bainmarie (demo)” 4:34
B4. “Cheewawa (demo)” 2:02
Catalog Number/Release Date
PoB-062 / March 5, 2021
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It’s an unusual occurrence in our experience, but occasionally a record arrives more or less fully formed in its demo phase. Long Lost Solace Find, the irresistible debut solo album by Mike Polizze (Purling Hiss, Birds of Maya) landed in our inboxes as just such a rara avis, to our great delight. Truly, we were floored by the perfect flight path of these skeletal songs, even without their summery studio plumage. Further fledging and local color came courtesy of Mike and engineer and co-producer Jeff Zeigler (The War on Drugs), with an enthusiastic assist from their close Philly friend Kurt Vile, but the bones of these songs were already embedded deep in the demos, structurally, lyrically, and spiritually. They proved to be elegant maquettes for the architecture of the album and a testament to Mike’s careful craftmanship.
So we are proud to present the outrageously titled collection Dizzy Demos: 2 Tickets to Cheeseburger in Paradise, comprising Dizzy Polizzy’s original homebrew demos for six of the twelve final album tracks, along with two studio outtakes from the Long Lost Solace Find sessions, “Sign of Life” and “Sunny Sundays” (which are, in our estimation, just as good as anything on the proper album.) Listen digitally wherever you harvest sounds from the ether, or pick up a florid green cassette, featuring alien/pyramid/burger art (and a two-cat centerfold) by the man himself and available exclusively via direct order from the PoB website and Bandcamp page, in an edition limited to 300 copies only.
Here’s hoping we hear more demos that sound this killer. Our inboxes are open, y’all.
Videos and Streaming
Acknowledgments
8/10, Album of the Month. Shunning electric guitar shred and garage distortion in favor of languid fingerstyle acoustic music and heavy-lidded balladry, these 12 tracks feel on the surface light and casual, but scrutinized up close betray a deep artistry and care. It’s the sort of record that makes you wonder: where, exactly, has he been hiding this stuff? It’s clear that on Long Lost Solace Find, he’s uncovered a rich seam of songwriting, classic-sounding yet modern, unquestionably nostalgic in temperament but undeniably vital despite it. It’s beautifully recorded… unfurling with an unhurried spaciousness that feels like the perfect foil for Polizze’s casual, dizzy lyricism. Even when he’s at his most melancholy and hangdog, the songs themselves gleam like diamonds.
– Uncut
4 stars. For anyone who digs the Philly scene of the War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, and Steve Gunn, Mike Polizze might be a comforting new discovery. Polizze has spent the last decade or so journeying from obliterating noise to slacker-pop, gradually peeling off layers of fuzz to expose a deft songcraft. That process has culminated in this very sweet debut… reminiscent of a bucolic J. Mascis and adroit Britfolk fingerpickers, and capable of a catchy alterna-hit when the mood takes him.
– MOJO
The sound of the record approaches bliss: the sonic equivalent of a beer on the beach at sunset. It flows like a well-conceived song cycle and moves gracefully from one thought to the next. In [“Sit Down”], he describes sunlight as “laser beams through my hair,” which seems like a good summary of the world he builds through songs: intimate, warm, a little uncanny.
– Pitchfork
I love this music so much. ‘Revelation’ is the summer jam I needed, and this is absolutely my summer record. I’m not just sayin’ that because Mike is my bro, and I happened to play and sing on it. I’m so proud and honored to have made the cut on five jams… So many of these songs give me chills. I think we all could use these catchy, beautiful jams in our respective quarantines (physical and mental)… I needed this shit! Mike Polizze is the guitar god of Philly, and Jeff Zeigler (recording king) knocked this one out the park, baby.
– Kurt Vile
Sun-kissed… Lovely, ruminative songs like “Wishing Well” and “Revelation” emerge like — well, like a revelation.
– The Philadelphia Inquirer
Exquisitely beautiful… It has the wondrous, enveloping quality of a daydream.
– American Songwriter
The off-the-cuff nature of his voice makes everything sound so effortless, but the melodies are incredibly hearty. Its light (but not over-the-top) twang and Polizze’s grizzled warmth are a match made in heaven—especially during these summer months. It’s the sound of floating in a pool inner tube with your eyes closed on a sun-kissed afternoon—you have no idea what time it is or whether you’re sunburnt, and you don’t care.
– Paste
You’re getting some real Philly indie roots-rock shit right here.
– Stereogum
Mike Polizze turns the hiss down to a hum and lets his soft side shine through. With fellow Philly luminary Kurt Vile in tow, he shapes [the album] into an azure swoon lit on clear skies, yet burdened with a slightly heavy heart. Polizze finds his own faded grace in his new digs, shaking off the yolk of fuzz for a surprisingly clear view of pop that’s littered with strums, horns, and sing-along choruses… The record cools the swamp of summer into the sweater-hugged nights of fall from the moment the needle hits the platter.
– Raven Sings the Blues
A set of laid-back, low-drama folk strummers that embody the heat and drift and idle musings of late summer under quarantine. There is a sense of every note being where it should be, glowingly back-lit and carefully arranged.
– Dusted
A-. Folk-rocky with occasional country-ish tendencies and a decided post-indie undercurrent. The music fits in with Paradise of Bachelors’ general thrust very nicely, but I’ll add that folks into Purple Mountains might dig, and that at a few points this reminded me of a less bent and more laidback and fingerpickin’ Miighty Flashlight. Swell.
– Long Live Vinyl
Beautifully melancholic… A craftsman whose easy mastery hides the years of work it took to get there. The hooks seem to never stop.
– Pitchfork
Idiosyncratic and remarkable … unwashed, long-haired pop strum.
– NPR Music
