Before singing up with Touch & Go and ending things in 1998, Polvo released a couple of their best albums on Merge in the early '90s. Others may disagree, but to my ears it never got better than Cor-Crane Secret, Today's Active Lifestyles, or the Celebrate the New Dark Age EP. It's fitting then that after their ATP resuscitation the group's resigned with Merge for their first record in over a decade. In Prism's out in the fall and at least judging from the lead track "Beggars Bowl," the mathy noise-rockers are still in fine, angular, all-over-the-map form. In fact, it sounds like old Polvo, down to the chanted lyrics and swirly dissonance. There was always something elegant and clean about these guys. That's there, too. Even in the album art.
Polvo - "Beggar's Bowl" (MP3)
The tracklist:
01 "Right The Relation"
02 "D.C. Trails"
03 "Beggar's Bowl"
04 "City Birds"
05 "Lucia"
06 "Dream Residue/Work"
07 "The Pedlar"
08 "A Thousand Waves"
In Prism is out 9/8 via Merge. Before that, remember to catch the guys at Merge XX.
