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Erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman Mike Polizze moved from nearby Media, Pennsylvania to Fishtown, Philadelphia in 2004, cofounding Birds of Maya and subsequently falling in with a nascent scene that included the War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, Espers, and the future Founding Fathers of Paradise of Bachelors.
Beginning with his first record as Purling Hiss in 2009, Polizze retained the pervasive fuzz of previous projects but gradually pivoted to a more pop-inflected idiom recalling the classic indie rock of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Purling Hiss eventually released six studio records (on the estimable Woodsist, Richie, and Drag City labels, among others) and toured for ten years as a proper band. In 2015, Chris Smith of Paradise of Bachelors urged Polizze to play his first proper solo show under his own name.
Long Lost Solace Find, the debut solo album by Mike Polizze, developed from that decisive moment, with Polizze, Zeigler, and Vile hunkering down in Uniform Recording to chip away at the twelve songs. This intimate Philadelphia affair represents the apotheosis of Polizze’s evolving craft.
Polizze's second solo record is a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his fingerstyle acoustic guitar magic and finally manifesting the title of the classic Hiss anthem “Run from the City.”
Beginning with his first record as Purling Hiss in 2009, Polizze retained the pervasive fuzz of previous projects but gradually pivoted to a more pop-inflected idiom recalling the classic indie rock of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Purling Hiss eventually released six studio records (on the estimable Woodsist, Richie, and Drag City labels, among others) and toured for ten years as a proper band. In 2015, Chris Smith of Paradise of Bachelors urged Polizze to play his first proper solo show under his own name.
Long Lost Solace Find, the debut solo album by Mike Polizze, developed from that decisive moment, with Polizze, Zeigler, and Vile hunkering down in Uniform Recording to chip away at the twelve songs. This intimate Philadelphia affair represents the apotheosis of Polizze’s evolving craft.
Polizze's second solo record is a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his fingerstyle acoustic guitar magic and finally manifesting the title of the classic Hiss anthem “Run from the City.”
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