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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
I can sort of see that.
There albums all kind of sound sloppy and out of tune. I think they're a band that benefits from loose playing.
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To be more specific, what makes the classic Polvo records so face-melting is that they consistently manage to sound really kind of sloppy, out of tune and just generally
off, while actually being some of the tightest stuff I've ever heard. The genius lies in the way that they create music that sounds really off kilter and thrown together, almost drunken, and yet, when you listen hard, is very much meticulously put together and totally on point in the way it veers from section to section. I always kind of saw the best of Polvo as like someone took some math-rock, completely destroyed it, and then very carefully stitched the remnants back together as these really warped pop songs. And it was magic.
The new track… doesn’t sound like this. It’s good, and I’ll be glad to hear more, but it suffers from a lot of the same problems as other late period Polvo, in that it trades in that sloppy veneer for a more "professional" rock construction, combined with more seperate "odd bits", but actually, when you get down to it, isn’t as well put together underneath it all. Still worth listening to, and better than most stuff in the same vein, but somehow ultimately lacking whatever it was that made, say, Today’s Active Lifestyles a masterpiece…
Or maybe it just needs to grow on me. Whatever.