Pre-Order Thread

MGD said:
Did anyone else order this, receive an email saying it's been shipped (on April 1st), and are still waiting?
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I preordered the Coke Bottle Clear through bandcamp way back and it arrived close to the release date. I didn't order the "Sacred Sperm" variant, if that's what you are waiting on. Since that variant was posted post-pandemic, a delay wouldn't surprise me. I almost bought the Sacred Sperm variant on bandcamp during their last "100% proceeds to artist day," but I couldn't justify a second copy. Amazing variant color name though!
 
I ordered the coke bottle clear as well. I've emailed to find out what's up

blenoxsmith said:
I preordered the Coke Bottle Clear through bandcamp way back and it arrived close to the release date. I didn't order the "Sacred Sperm" variant, if that's what you are waiting on. Since that variant was posted post-pandemic, a delay wouldn't surprise me. I almost bought the Sacred Sperm variant on bandcamp during their last "100% proceeds to artist day," but I couldn't justify a second copy. Amazing variant color name though!
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WATCHMEN SOUNDTRACK

(ABOVE LISTED PRICE IS PER VOLUME) The emmy winning score for HBO's critically acclaimed series. THREE UNIQUE LPS SPECIFICALLY TIMED TO BE RELEASED THROUGHOUT THE FIRST SEASON OF HBO'S WATCHMEN. CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SHOW'S WRITERS, EACH LP FEATURES THE SCORE FROM ACADEMY AWARD...
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All three volumes of Watchmen OST are back up on the NIN store. Appears to be around 1200 of each. Also available on their UK store.
 
blenoxsmith said:
I preordered the Coke Bottle Clear through bandcamp way back and it arrived close to the release date. I didn't order the "Sacred Sperm" variant, if that's what you are waiting on. Since that variant was posted post-pandemic, a delay wouldn't surprise me. I almost bought the Sacred Sperm variant on bandcamp during their last "100% proceeds to artist day," but I couldn't justify a second copy. Amazing variant color name though!
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MGD said:
I ordered the coke bottle clear as well. I've emailed to find out what's up
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Sonicpharmacist said:
I received my coke bottle clear a couple weeks ago
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weird, I ordered the coke bottle clear the last time Bandcamp waived fees and I got it like 5 days later, surprisingly fast actually.
 
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Tourists beware: if you wander around Old City Philadelphia—the thoroughly sanitized home of the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, all manner of Ye Olde Hoagie Shoppes, and the “non-partisan” historical theme park abomination known as the National Constitution Center—you’re liable to be accosted by one of many ersatz Ben Franklins shucking and jiving for your Yankee dollars. The Disneyfied colonial cosplay can make you forget the fact that the real Ben was, in his time, a true-blue Philly freak, who alongside all the radical politicking, pamphleteering, and scientific tinkering, found time to write raunchy letters and something called The Drinker’s Dictionary. He not only invented bifocals, swim fins, and the lightning rod, but also a musical instrument called the armonica—or better yet, the “glassychord.”

The story of Long Lost Solace Find, the debut solo album by Mike Polizze, is a Philadelphia story. It’s also a story about the erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman and Birds of Maya shredder stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine to inhabit the dazzling realm of glassychords. Performed entirely by Polizze (largely live and acoustic), with notable instrumental and vocal contributions from longtime friend Kurt Vile, and recorded (slowly, over the course of a year) by War on Drugs engineer Jeff Zeigler, this intimate Philly affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Polizze’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. Long Lost Solace Find finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.

Mike moved from nearby Media, Pennsylvania to Fishtown, Philadelphia in 2004, cofounding Birds of Maya with Jason Killinger (later of Spacin’) and Ben Leaphart (later also of Purling Hiss, Watery Love, et al.) and subsequently falling in with a nascent scene that included the War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, Espers, and the future Founding Fathers of Paradise of Bachelors. In the early years of the new millennium, Philadelphia, and particularly the affordable neighborhoods north of Northern Liberties that attracted artists and musicians, could be a brutal and sinister place, with acres of abandoned and blighted post-industrial blocks ripe for reclamation through thoughtless gentrification. (One of my final, fateful memories before I moved to North Carolina in 2006 was watching a threadbare, discombobulated pigeon stagger in sidewalk circles, impaled wingwise with a syringe. Tourists beware!) The primeval caveman roar of Birds of Maya—through which Polizze carved savage solos, wielding his guitar like a garotte—reflected that uneasy, transitional urban milieu.

Beginning with his first record as Purling Hiss in 2009, Polizze retained the pervasive (if somewhat softened) fuzz but gradually pivoted to a more pop-inflected idiom that, as he refined it—Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs produced 2013’s Water on Mars—increasingly recalled the classic indie rock of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although, particularly in the early days, it sometimes constituted a de facto solo bedroom project, Purling Hiss eventually released six studio records (on the estimable Woodsist, Richie, and Drag City labels, among others) and toured for ten years as a proper band. Mike never entirely ventured out from behind the moniker, or the clamor. (On Long Lost Solace Find, he jokes about sometime nickname Dizzy Polizzy, singing, in the final lines of “Vertigo,” the last song on the record, “I am dizzy in your world.”) In 2015 Christopher Smith of Paradise of Bachelors urged Polizze to play his first proper solo show under his own name, opening for the Weather Station. The present album developed from that decisive moment, with Polizze, Zeigler, and Vile hunkering down in Uniform Recording to chip away at these twelve songs.

And what songs! With very little electric guitar and few effects audible, Polizze’s expressiveness and dexterity as a fingerstyle player (not to mention a singer) emerges, especially on unadorned tunes like “Wishing Well” and the instrumental “D’Modal,” both of which bring to mind friend and fellow Delco native Steve Gunn. An amiably languid mood prevails, offhandedly achieving an atmosphere of quiet bliss and charming nonchalance that belies the morass of contradictions, bruising anxieties, nostalgia and nauseous stasis suggested by the elliptical lyrics (I told you it’s a Philadelphia story). The lyrical content sometimes dissolves into the simple, childlike pleasures of rhymes and phonemic play, dispensing with parsable grammar entirely, as in the chorus of “Do do do” and the “Bam-bam a rambling man, a midnight sham” bit in infectious lead single “Revelation,” an instantly winsome number which features Kurt on backing vocals and surprise trumpet. The way Polizze sings the banal title of “Bainmarie”—literally, from the French, “Mary’s bath,” a kind of double-boiler kitchen device, a reference to the hardships of past jobs—like “memory” gets at the remarkable way these lilting melodies unfold with gorgeous, unpretentiously Proustian grace and ease.

The endless hooks here sound casual, almost shrugged-off, despite their carefully constructed recursive and ramifying nature. Long Lost Solace Find demonstrates Polizze as a fount of perfectly turned little melodies and riffs and guilelessly sung ditties—glassychords—not unlike the way that Ben Franklin was a fount of indelible, perfectly phrased aphorisms. Here’s one that feels rather relevant to Mike’s move from the shadows into the sun: “Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade!” Long Lost Solace Find represents the apotheosis of Polizze’s evolving craft.

  • The debut solo album by Mike Polizze—and his first release for Paradise of Bachelors—finds the erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman and Birds of Maya shredder stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine, joined by longtime friend Kurt Vile.
  • Deluxe LP edition features 140g virgin vinyl; heavy-duty board jacket; full-color inner sleeve and labels; and high-res Bandcamp download code.
  • Deluxe transparent blue vinyl LP edition is limited to 650 copies.
  • CD edition features gatefold board jacket with LP replica art.
  • RIYL Purling Hiss, Birds of Maya, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Nap Eyes, the War on Drugs, Ted Lucas, Daniel Johnston, Jonathan Richman, the Clean, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead


Mike Polizze: Long Lost Solace Find – Paradise of Bachelors

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