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Here's one of my famous news roundup from press.weheartmusic.com. A few things before we get started: Polynya (polynya.info) is playing a few dates and would like you to know about it:

March 18th at Hell in Chapel Hill, NC
April 4th at Nightlight in Chapel Hill, NC

 

Kerry Politzer - Always

Kerry Politzer (kerrypolitzer.com) is addicted to Second Life (haha! just kidding).

If you play Second Life, you should add her as a friend. I would be doing Second Life too if it wasn't for presky First Life getting in the way.

If you were curious about what a "live" performance on Second Life looks like, check out this youtube video.

Also, I don't know where Q's House (is it in New York?), but there will be a live interview with her on February 19th. More details about this interview on myspace.

65daysofstatic - When We Were Younger & Better Cadence Weapon - Your Hair's Not Clothes iiO - Rapture (Creamer & Stephane K Edit) Microphones.Mount Eerie - Universe

A few tour announcements as well: 65daysofstatic (65daysofstatic.com) and Cadence Weapon (cadenceweaponmusic.com) are going on tour.

We've previously mentioned 65daysofstatic before, so check out the article for more details.

I'm actually pretty excited about Cadence Weapon, who sounds like Minneapolis's Atmosphere.

I have Cadence Weapon's new album, Afterparty Babies (to be released March 4th 2008), for review, and from what I've heard: it's full of great pop culture lyrics.

 

If you're into club/dance, you might have heard "Rapture" by iiO (iiomusic.com). Well after four years, they've decided to go back and "reconstruct" the song and release it as, erm, "Rapture Reconstruction".

The double-disc EP contains 15 tracks of the new Rapture song, each remixed by a variety of DJs.

The sample song I received (Creamer & K Remix) is pretty good, although I haven't heard the original Reconstruction song to compare it.

And speaking of re-issues, the original 2001 The Glow Pt 2 by Microphones.Mount Eerie (krecs.com) is being re-released on April 8th as a 2-disc set from K Records.

This band was originally called The Microphones (based out of Olympia, Washington), who, under the direction of Phil Elvrum, changed their name to Mount Eerie in 2004. Not sure why the name change, but they basically changed it back to The Microphones.

 02/18/2008 20:32:20  vu my♥posts weheartmusic.com

Polynya

Band Members ♥ Amelia ♥ Andrea ♥ Luke ♥ Pat ♥Thom Sounds Like The Diskettes, Team Dresch, Tiger Trap, Go Sailor, Velocity Girl, The Pastels

 

Polynya - Old West

Polynya

Polynya are from North Carolina... and that's pretty much all I know about this band! I thought they were a new band, but I was told that the recording of their debut album took about "4 fastidious years". Which only means that the band were together at least four years ago.

Judging from the photographs of their myspace that they seem like a really close-knit bunch of friends. Their debut self-titled album is only $10, see details on their official website.

So, it seems maybe Luke is the primary song writer and music arranger. It's also interesting to note that two of the band members also DJs at the college station in Chapel Hill (WXYC), so I think they're very well versed in the college music scene.

So the first thing that struck me is how much the singer's vocals (I think it's Amelia) sound like Rose Melberg (from Tiger Trap). Their sound like is a sweet indie pop, with some great harmonies. Sometime Luke jumps in and sings as well, so they have a great girl-boy sound that reminds me of Velocity Girl.

I like the opening song, "Old West", a lot. I think there's three layers of different vocals on this song. It's also best listened to with headphones because there's some music and noise that exists independently on either left or right headphones.

I also remember liking "Sweatshop" a lot. The sound on this song sounds a bit noisy and low-fi, which I liked. You can preview their whole album on their website.

Lastly, can someone explain to me why downloading the album costs much more than buying the physical CD? According to my calculations, if you download the album from Digstation (not to be confused with Diggnation), it will cost you $12.87 - while the physical CD with Shipping & Handling has a grand total of $10. If anything, because there's no cost of pressing the cd, printing the sleeve and shipment, digital sales should be much lower.

So, yes, buy the physical CD is my recommendation by sending an email to (image).

If you like what you heard, they are in the process of recording their next album, which I'm told will sound pretty similar to this album.

Watch my mispronouncing of their name on the second video:

 

W♥M Video #2

 

Other bands mentioned: Finespun, more detail on their EP later, in the meantime, check out: finespunmusic.com.

 12/06/2007 22:02:24  vu my♥posts www.polynya.info myspace.com