On July 11, 2025, almost exactly four years to the day after the appearance of his acclaimed debut solo record, Long Lost Solace Find (also released mid-disaster, in early pandemic days), Mike Polizze (
@purling_hiss ) of veteran Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and
@birdsofmaya will release his second summertime solo album, ambiguously entitled Around Sound.
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A rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—Around Sound affirms Polizze’s status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his fingerstyle acoustic guitar magic (and finally manifesting the title of the classic 2010 Hiss anthem “Run from the City).” Polizze plays every part and instrument on the album, and once again, he co-produced with longtime friend and collaborator
@jeffzeigler_ (
@thewarondrugs ,
@kurtvile ,
@maryoverthere ), who also engineered and mixed, at
@uniformrecording . Mastered by the master
@joshbonati .
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Today Polizze shares the first single, “Everybody I Know,” which, with its sudden downshift from an anthemic rally into a slower, loping tempo, demonstrates the album’s more varied and intricate song structures, less bound by predictable shapes and progressions.
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Listen, pre-order the record, see the artwork, and get 30% off Mike’s back catalog (with coupon code SOUND, only on the PoB website) via bio links.
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Really proud of this beautiful record and of Mike, the loveliest guy to work with.
📷: Patrick Hickey
