{"id":656,"date":"2011-10-07T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=656"},"modified":"2011-10-07T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:45:56","slug":"song-of-the-day-polvo-a-link-in-the-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2011\/10\/07\/song-of-the-day-polvo-a-link-in-the-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE DAY: Polvo &#8212; &#8220;A Link in the Chain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">|<em>palimpsests of swelter beneath a new temperate regime<\/em>|<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">My general conception of great nineties guitar-based alternative music is indelibly centralized around Polvo, a band formed in 1990 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. \u00a0Polvo&#8217;s earliest recordings consist of fairly unabashed, aggressive, mathy post-punk (check out 1993&#8217;s <em>Today&#8217;s Active Lifestyles<\/em>\u00a0for a sprawling distortional romp), while its output in later years saw the band cross-fade its former ideas with approaches more proggy and Eastern-tinged before its break-up in 1998.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This specific track is the closer off of the band&#8217;s excellent <em>In Prism<\/em>, the 2009 reunion album, which I was hesitant to approach. \u00a0Turns out that that fear was unfounded, since this plays not so much as a backward-glancing money-grabber as a series of long-churning ideas pensively pressed. \u00a0The album, produced by the great Brian Paulson, is out on Merge Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amoeba.com\/dynamic-images\/blog\/Brad\/polvo.jpg\" align=\"center\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Infinitely defer your auricular discontent by putting Polvo on infinite repeat.  This tune is a great place to start\/end\/continue.  More words and sounds after the jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[88,104,114],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the","tag-merge-records","tag-polvo","tag-rock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-aA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}