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Lolita Mercury Retrograde LP/CD/CS Rat Race Dead Again She Calms Me Down Release Date: March 19, 2013 Face Down The Harrowing Wind Water On Mars Mary Bumblebee -

PURLING HISS celebration laments out of their usual get in your face. Their have records broken are out a of half-corroded, the basement, screaming run through roar the of bedroomhigh-end andgui — but this time the unexpected part is how Water Purlingon Hiss Mars ’s inner rock It takes balls to let tars crushed together, obliterating vocals and even drums with-teric their moods,singular from assault. the Well,gutbusting if you’ve bellow got balls, of “Lolita” get ready and to swing ‘em. With Water On Mars, are out in the streets, blasting one of the great guitar albums in the past couple minutes. It’s a tumble of hits and ragers, sewing together nine new Purling Hiss

patches of distortion, singing melodies and unexpected production hoohah the guitars gleam so precisely as they pile upon’s first each recording other, howoutside they the work fuzzy alongside confines of the of Mike rhythm Polizze section rather than avalanching it. And how the songs embody a variety of Hiss is Purling Hiss “Face Down” through the acoustic flatline of “Dead Again,” the’s guitars aromatic slugging, slide guitars sizzling and and spiraling within their “She way Calms around Me Down,” the anthemish surge of “Rat Race” and the wailing march-jam, “Water On Mars.” Water On Mars projects maelstrom, their sounds with and Polizze ideas onto a new platform, with a visceral and soulful presence. utopia, where the first three albums and EP were constructed in solitude with a home-recording is heavy stuffsetup.— another, from Over Purling the greater past couple years, Mike’s been working with a band and fine-tuning new songwriting ideas while playing shows all over the place. Now, Purling Hiss have a deeply satisfying way of drawing from the red, white and Now there is a center to the Hiss lyricises like a poet of the disaffected, shifting from aggro to slack and back over the course of a song; the rhythm throb. Polizze

the production highlights the schiz— and by no buffing other thetime raw could power apply, into really. a streamlined Water On blast, Mars hitting down hard and covering a lot of ground in just over a half hour. Purling Hiss POINTS OF INTEREST blue wells of 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s rock to inform their own aresound, a band giving with a thingshandful ofa greatretro records ring while so far. doing Water what On Mars they do in the Philadelphia of today Purling Hiss , unknotting the strings that tangled all their previous records together so righteously to reveal Hiss is their fourth LP in five years, and their first release since the “Lounge Lizards” EP in 2011. storm within. dig playing these songs live and the solos rip extra hard Purling Hiss  The War. on Drugs when they do so. Check from it out! helped produce and plays a

Adam Granduciel  bit of piano on Water On , MarsMike Polizze has kicked more and more ass DRAG CITY INC. Starting with playing in Birds of Maya in 2004 and continuing with his P.O. Box 476867  music in Purling Hiss Chicago, IL 60647 with great songs and shred-alert guitar skills. ph 312.455.1015 fx 312.455.1057 [email protected]