To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Mike Polizze
Long Lost Solace Find
(Paradise of Bachelors)
★★★★
THE FRONTMAN of Philadelphia experimental indie-rock group Purling Hiss, Mike Polizze was encouraged to perform unaccompanied by his friends at the Paradise of Bachelors label.
Long Lost Solace Find is the outcome and it’s an assured, largely acoustic solo debut recorded slowly over the course of a year with help from his longtime friend Kurt Vile.
This is the key bit of context — the album’s stoned summer ambience echoes the sound of Vile on records like 2011’s Smoke Ring for My Halo. In fact, the mood is so laid-back it’s virtually horizontal.
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