STRFKR ANNOUNCES PARALLEL REALMS OUT MARCH 1 ON POLYVINYL RECORDS LISTEN TO “TOGETHER FOREVER” NOW In a journey that’s been taking new directions since it started, every step of the way has led STRFKR to Parallel Realms. The [...]
Xiu Xiu OH NO Polyvinyl Records Xiu Xiu has been around almost two decades now cranking out experimental masterpieces. Singer songwriter Jamie Stewart’s lyrics are so intimate that some songs have been a hard listen. What is not talked about [...]
Of Montreal UR FUN Polyvinyl Records My first introduction to Of Montreal was a mixed CD with “Don’t Ask Me to Explain” blaring through my crappy car speakers. My second introduction to the band was their catchy Outback Steakhouse commercial, [...]
Xiu Xiu Girl With Basket Of Fruit Polyvinyl Records San Jose-based experimental band Xiu Xiu’s fourteenth studio album, Girl with Basket of Fruit, was conceived as a trip through the Black Lodge from the critically acclaimed television [...]
Tancred Nightstand Polyvinyl Records With Tancred’s 2016 Out of the Garden, primary songwriter Jess Abbott gave us an outright honest album about her personal experiences with femininity. Expressing those experiences brought out a harsher sound [...]
Quiet Slang Everything Matters But No One Is Listening Polyvinyl Records First off, go listen to Beach Slang, then go listen to Quiet Slang. There seems to be difference between the two, but also a strange similarity. Well, Quiet Slang is James [...]
Xiu Xiu / (r) Xiu Xiu / (r) Polyvinyl Records Long-time collaborators and experimentalists Xiu Xiu and (r) have partnered up to play ZZ Top covers for a new split 7” single release through Polyvinyl. For the avant-garde followers of California’s [...]
FAN – “FIRE” Polyvinyl Meric Long has been making music as one half of The Dodos for over a decade, and today he announces a brand new solo project entitled FAN. Conceived upon hearing an irreproducible pattern made from the [...]
Rainer Maria w/ Olivia Neutron-John @ The Garrison, Toronto September 22, 2017 For the first time in over a decade, Wisconsin based band Rainer Maria has released a new album. The album is titled S/T, and includes nine new tracks written by the [...]
Alvvays Antisocialites Polyvinyl Records Antisocialites is Alvvays’ highly anticipated follow-up to their 2014 self-titled debut. Within its 33 minutes are 10 songs of reckless romance, isolation, and loss that are draped in Alvvays’ [...]
Shugo Tokumaru Toss Polyvinyl Records Slice everything into pieces, toss them in the air, let them fall to the ground, then pick them up and arrange them in any random order and see what you can come up with. I guess that is maybe what Shugo [...]
The White Reaper The World’s Best American Band Polyvinyl Records The World’s Best American Band is more than just the title of White Reaper’s latest release, it is also the band’s aspirational credo. While calling a band [...]
Fred Thomas Changer Polyvinyl Records Fred Thomas is a songwriter/producer who has been creating a steady stream of material for fifteen years. After releasing a series of singles, Thomas was encouraged to focus on putting an album together. [...]
Various Artists Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl Polyvinyl Records Over the past 20 years, the independent music scene has changed significantly. Bands have come and gone and styles have changed, yet Polyvinyl Records remains true to its DIY aesthetic [...]
XIU XIU ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM ‘FORGET’ & SHARES “WONDERING” OUT 2/24 ON POLYVINYL Noise-pop provocateurs Xiu Xiu have announced their newest album, FORGET, due out February 24th on Polyvinyl. Produced by John Congleton [...]
STRFKR Being No One, Going Nowhere Polyvinyl Records Over the past few years there has been a trend of experimentation with vintage sounds in the ill defined field of indie-pop. With a multitude of lush 80s rhythms and synth textures reclaiming [...]
La Sera Queens EP Polyvinyl Records Somewhere in between touring in support of its album Music For Listening to Music To (which I reviewed just this past March HERE), La Sera found the time to record its latest EP, Queens. A longtime fan of Katy [...]
Beach Slang A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings Polyvinyl Records In the short time since the release of their 2015 full-length debut, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us, Beach Slang has kept busy. They’ve toured extensively, nearly [...]
A QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS NEVER SOUNDED SO DREAMY AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIA JACKLIN Julia Jacklin has garnered a lot of attention these days, and for good reason. The Australian singer-songwriter has charmed listeners with her Americana-infused Indie [...]
LA SERA ANNOUNCES NEW QUEENS EP | SHARES TITLE TRACK + LAUNCHES FULL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN OCTOBER “La Sera released their Ryan Adams-produced LP Music For Listening To Music To back in March, and they’re heading out on a fall tour across [...]
Psychic Twin Strange Diary Polyvinyl Records In the midst of a dissolving relationship seem to be a suitable albeit emotionally exhausting state in which to start producing an album. This appears to be the case for former Headlights member Erin [...]
of Montreal Innocence Reaches Polyvinyl Records For the past 20 years, of Montreal has dabbled in every almost every genre imaginable, from Indie Pop to Glam Rock to R&B and even Country Rock. On their latest album, Innocence Reaches, we see [...]
Deerhoof The Magic Polyvinyl Records A surreal San Francisco treat since 1994! Zany. Weird. Bizarre. Unorthodox. Quirky. Supernatural. Absurdist. Unconventional. This is the spectrum of diction that fans and newcomers would use to describe the [...]
Ladyhawke Wild Things Polyvinyl Records If you take the ingenious synthy goodness of CHVRCHES and the catchy Pop hooks of Carly Rae Jepsen and throw them in a blender, what you’ll get is probably something close to the third album from New [...]
