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DB 173EP
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Pollyester, whose fans include James Murphy and Alex Kapranos, follow their 2015 album City of O. (DB 170CD/LP) with three remixes of album track "Catrina." On Abe Duque's remix shadowy flakes of Polly's voice echo through the background and a 303 finds its way to the surface where classic disco strings are waiting to merge in pollyphonic beatitude. Disco edit and cosmic dub priest Hugo Capablanca adds rattling percussion and a mumbling bassline to drive his more melodic remix forward. The most sinister version comes from The Emperor Machine, who turns in a work of functional Detroit techno pervaded with classic electro patterns.
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DB 172EP
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Internationally lauded as an exciting mixture between Les Rita Mitsouko and krautrock, Pollyester has become one of the hottest disco-punk shooting stars. Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos as well as James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) quickly became fans of the quartet. The video for "In My Boots" from their 2015 album City of O (DB 170CD) was named "best video of the month" by German public-service broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. Now with a 12'' four-track club/disco remixes EP of "In My Boots," Pollyester continues to defend and expand its natural habitat: The Dancefloor. Remixes by Bartellow, Whatever/Whatever, and Outlier Inn (Josh Druckman).
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Gatefold double LP + CD version. Three years have passed since the release of Pollyester's debut album Earthly Powers (PERMVAC 079CD/LP). The international press celebrated Pollyester as an exciting mixture of Les Rita Mitsouki, cosmic and Kraut rock, and declared them top-notch disco punk newcomers. Several tours in the U.S., Japan and Europe followed as a logical consequence and even Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos and Mr. James Murphy himself quickly became fans of the quartet, which is now reloading with full force on its Disko B/Schamoni Musik premiere. "The City Of Orion," a reproduction of this mystical heavenly body, recreated by man in the Moroccan desert, has been a long-time yearning place for Polly and her three band members and became the major inspiration for the album title. Many of the new songs circulate around the theme of solitude in all its facets, but everyone who is now thinking of a barely accessible concept album is dead wrong, because also in 2014 the band sparkles in a fountain of unbound punk/new wave/disco energy: This is where early Talking Heads hangs around on a DFA bloc party while Tom Tom Club is jamming with Le Tigre in the background. The opener "Cut Diamond" addresses that special second in which you realize a related chemical composition in your counterpart, and the two instrumentals "City of Orion I & II" are desert music à la Pollyester -- the soundtrack for the band's not-yet-realized trip to the origin of their longing. "In My Boots" is Polly's advice for all matters of life: Stay strong in rugged boots -- cowgirls stroll easier. Pollyester also have one eye on the dancefloor as well, to be verified in "Catrina," a song which is dedicated to the protective patroness of the Day of the Dead in Mexico: a marvelous cold fusion of Italo pop, high energy and '80s funk -- surely not the only club hit on this record. City of O. is a brightly glistening album, yet it emanates tranquility and sovereignty at the same time. The best of both worlds in the most beautiful sense of pop.
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Three years have passed since the release of Pollyester's debut album Earthly Powers (PERMVAC 079CD/LP). The international press celebrated Pollyester as an exciting mixture of Les Rita Mitsouki, cosmic and Kraut rock, and declared them top-notch disco punk newcomers. Several tours in the U.S., Japan and Europe followed as a logical consequence and even Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos and Mr. James Murphy himself quickly became fans of the quartet, which is now reloading with full force on its Disko B/Schamoni Musik premiere. "The City Of Orion," a reproduction of this mystical heavenly body, recreated by man in the Moroccan desert, has been a long-time yearning place for Polly and her three band members and became the major inspiration for the album title. Many of the new songs circulate around the theme of solitude in all its facets, but everyone who is now thinking of a barely accessible concept album is dead wrong, because also in 2014 the band sparkles in a fountain of unbound punk/new wave/disco energy: This is where early Talking Heads hangs around on a DFA bloc party while Tom Tom Club is jamming with Le Tigre in the background. The opener "Cut Diamond" addresses that special second in which you realize a related chemical composition in your counterpart, and the two instrumentals "City of Orion I & II" are desert music à la Pollyester -- the soundtrack for the band's not-yet-realized trip to the origin of their longing. "In My Boots" is Polly's advice for all matters of life: Stay strong in rugged boots -- cowgirls stroll easier. Pollyester also have one eye on the dancefloor as well, to be verified in "Catrina," a song which is dedicated to the protective patroness of the Day of the Dead in Mexico: a marvelous cold fusion of Italo pop, high energy and '80s funk -- surely not the only club hit on this record. City of O. is a brightly glistening album, yet it emanates tranquility and sovereignty at the same time. The best of both worlds in the most beautiful sense of pop.
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PERMVAC 080EP
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Tribal rhythms, energetic Krautrock, disco strings and witch-house moments featured heavily on Pollyester's debut album Earthly Powers. Two of the stand-out tracks "Concierge d'Amour" and the cover version of the Russ Ballard song "Voices" get the remix treatment here. Prins Thomas adds disko craziness to "Concierge d' Amour" while the Permanent Vacation boys explore the deeper side of the Pollyester sound. Pional strips down "Voices" to its infective melody and Baris K gives "Voices" the Bosporus cosmic treatment.
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PERMVAC 079CD
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Munich-based duo Pollyester has been wowing the world with various EPs since 2007, released on their own label Love In C Minor and Permanent Vacation. Now it's time for their album Earthly Powers, where Les Rita Mitsouko collide with witch house in a Krautrock commune and disco strings hug Siouxsie Sioux. On this debut, two indefatigable genre crossers indulge in pop, experimenting with far-out hooklines in a Kraut-disco fashion. Polina Lapkovskaja alias Polly and Manuel Da Coll alias Yossarian have already established themselves as a contemporary producer duo full of surprises, and these 12 songs will even further propel them around the pop globe. Somewhere in between Stereolab, The Slits, Can, Chrisma and Nico, Pollyester have made themselves comfortable with their electronic sizzling. They don't steal and they don't imitate, just here and there a few flashes of recognition will hit brains with pop music schooling, only to evaporate in the duo's unique sound amalgam the next moment. A sound that inexorably bores itself into the body with an analog strength and plenty of catchy tunes without letting itself reduce to one explicit style. Similar to contemporary North American newcomers such as Rainbow Arabia, Peaking Lights or The Soft Moon, Pollyester are not interested in any genre labeling and playfully jump between spooky and euphoric atmospheres. Tribal rhythms, energetic Krautrock, disco strings and witch house moments are equal partners in their kaleidoscope arrangements. All of them magically glisten, thanks to Polly's cool emotional speech-song and promote double-bottom pop that clings to the listener and at the same time sounds somehow bitchy. The music is topped by Polly's surreal lyrics, all of which loop themselves into the brains of listeners with their mantra choruses, projecting nightly metropolitan neon stories on the inner screen. Pollyester ignite their unique space shuttle fuel and no matter what speed they play and with what atmosphere they toy, they rotate in their own orbit with their boogie bass hooks, their twinkling synthesizer melodies and their twisted grooves.
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PERMVAC 052EP
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Split release with the Love In C Minor label, presenting number 8 in Pollyester's countdown series. German Love Letter is here to wake the old babes at the slots with a mantra-like lullaby which goes something like: "ACH DU ACH DU ACH DU ACH DU ACH DU!" Featuring remixes by Permanent Vacation, Optimo Espacio and Hal Tabac. In the middle of snowy Munich's nowhere, a black-hearted army of penguin lovers is doing the heartbreak dance.
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