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Water on Mars Mary Bumblebee DC533 Lolita Mercury Retrograde Rat Race Dead Again She Calms Me Down Face Down The Harrowing Wind Water On Mars LP/CD/CS Mary Bumblebee Release Date: March 19, 2013 PURLING HISS Water on Mars It takes balls to let Purling Hiss get in your face. Their records are a half-corroded, screaming roar of high-end gui- tars crushed together, obliterating vocals and even drums with their singular assault. Well, if you’ve got balls, get ready to swing ‘em. With Water On Mars, Purling Hiss have broken out of the basement, run through the bedroom and 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 celebration laments out of their usual patches of distortion, singing melodies and unexpected production hoohah — but this time the unexpected part is how the guitars gleam so precisely as they pile upon each other, how they work alongside of the rhythm section rather than avalanching it. And how the songs embody a variety of Hiss-teric moods, from the gutbusting bellow of “Lolita” and “Face Down” through the acoustic flatline of “Dead Again,” the aromatic slide guitars and piano within “She Calms Me Down,” the anthemish surge of “Rat Race” and the wailing march-jam, “Water On Mars.” Water On Mars is Purling Hiss’s first recording outside the fuzzy confines of Mike Polizze’s inner rock utopia, where the first three albums and EP were constructed in solitude with a home-recording setup. Over the 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 projects their sounds and ideas onto a new platform, with a visceral and soulful presence. Now there is a center to the Hiss maelstrom, with Polizze’s guitars slugging, sizzling and spiraling their way around the rhythm throb. Polizze lyricises like a poet of the disaffected, shifting from aggro to slack and back over the course of a song; the production highlights the schiz by buffing the raw power into a streamlined blast, hitting down hard and covering a lot of ground in just over a half hour. Purling Hiss have a deeply satisfying way of drawing from the red, white and blue wells of 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s rock to inform their own sound, giving things a retro ring while doing what they do in the Philadelphia of today — and no other time could apply, really. Water On Mars is heavy stuff from Purling Hiss, unknotting the strings that tangled all their previous records together so righteously to reveal — another, greater storm within. POINTS OF INTEREST Purling Hiss are a band with a handful of great records so far. Water On Mars is their fourth LP in five years, and their first release since the “Lounge Lizards” EP in 2011. DRAG CITY INC. Purling Hiss dig playing these songs live and the solos rip extra hard P.O. Box 476867 when they do so. Check it out! Chicago, IL 60647 Adam Granduciel from The War on Drugs helped produce and plays a ph 312.455.1015 bit of piano on Water On Mars. fx 312.455.1057 [email protected] Starting with playing in Birds of Maya in 2004 and continuing with his music in Purling Hiss, Mike Polizze has kicked more and more ass with great songs and shred-alert guitar skills..
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