Indie rock pacemaker blog Pitchfork has given Polvo’s In Prism, the band’s first album in 12 years, an 8.1 rating.
Here’s an excerpt of the review by Stuart Berman:
“Ten years of recording-technology advances also means that Polvo has never sounded more radiant; liberated from the murky, mid-fi production of the band’s older records, Ash Bowie emerges as a forceful, almost swaggering vocalist on In Prism’s blast-off opener “Right the Relation”, which, despite its cryptic allusions to Polvo’s history and ethos (”We see the beauty behind imperfection… I kill my creation to right the relation”) is the band’s most forthright, unfussy rocker to date.”
On a similar note, KEXP of Seattle also likes what it hears.
If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, Merge Records has the album available for streaming. What are your thoughts on Polvo’s big return?
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