Transmissions from Paradise

ALBUM ABSTRACT The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his 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 final...

ALBUM ABSTRACT The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his 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 final...

ALBUM ABSTRACT The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his 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 final...

ALBUM ABSTRACT The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his 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 final...

ALBUM ABSTRACT The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his 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 final...

ALBUM ABSTRACT The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his 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 final...

ALBUM ABSTRACT The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his 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 final...

Jennifer Castle Camelot PoB-078 LP/CD/Digital November 1, 2024 Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills every...

Jennifer Castle Camelot PoB-078 LP/CD/Digital November 1, 2024 Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills every...

Jennifer Castle Camelot PoB-078 LP/CD/Digital November 1, 2024 Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills every...

Jennifer Castle Camelot PoB-078 LP/CD/Digital November 1, 2024 Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills every...

Jennifer Castle Camelot PoB-078 LP/CD/Digital November 1, 2024 Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills every...

Jennifer Castle Camelot PoB-078 LP/CD/Digital November 1, 2024 Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills every...

Jennifer Castle Camelot PoB-078 LP/CD/Digital November 1, 2024 Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills every...

"The Neon Gate" is out October 18, 2024 on Paradise of Bachelors (worldwide) and Paper Bag Records (Canada). BUY/LISTEN: https://lnk.to/24naps DETAILS: https://paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-077 Nap Eyes’ metamorphic fifth long-player collects a cache of nine fascinating songs recorded over the four years since Snapshot of a Beginner. The Neon Gate reveals classic touchstones (the uneasy interpl...

Jennifer Castle Camelot PoB-078 LP/CD/Digital November 1, 2024 Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills every...

Jennifer Castle Camelot PoB-078 LP/CD/Digital November 1, 2024 Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills every...

"The Neon Gate" is out October 18, 2024 on Paradise of Bachelors (worldwide) and Paper Bag Records (Canada). BUY/LISTEN: https://lnk.to/24naps DETAILS: https://paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-077 Nap Eyes’ metamorphic fifth long-player collects a cache of nine fascinating songs recorded over the four years since Snapshot of a Beginner. The Neon Gate reveals classic touchstones (the uneasy interpl...

Jennifer Castle's "Blowing Kisses" (as heard on Season 3 of FX's "The Bear") is out June 27, 2024, on Paradise of Bachelors and Solstice Radio. LISTEN/WATCH: https://lnk.to/PoB78 DETAILS: https://paradiseofbachelors.com/jennifer-castle On the ravishing country-soul ballad “Blowing Kisses,” her first new song in three and a half years, the celebrated Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle contemplates...

paradiseofbachelors.com/nap-eyes paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-077dig2 lnk.to/24naps Following their first new music in three years ("remarkable lyric writing" – FADER; "quietly devastating" – Exclaim), Nap Eyes presents a languorous adaptation of a phantasmagorical poem by Russian Romantic Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837). “Demons" depicts a perilous nocturnal journey by carriage, beset by eerie...

https://paradiseofbachelors.com/nap-eyes https://paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-077dig1 https://lnk.to/24naps The first Nap Eyes song in exactly three years, the astonishing “Feline Wave Race,” which transports the listener from “outer space” to a “13th-century castle” and into the 1996 Nintendo game Wave Race 64, piloted by synths and drum programming, is more discursive and deconstructed, more...

https://paradiseofbachelors.com/nap-eyes https://paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-077dig1 https://lnk.to/24naps The first Nap Eyes song in exactly three years, the astonishing “Feline Wave Race,” which transports the listener from “outer space” to a “13th-century castle” and into the 1996 Nintendo game Wave Race 64, piloted by synths and drum programming, is more discursive and deconstructed, more...

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pieces is a fascinating array of covers, ranging from traditional Breton dance tu...

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pieces is a fascinating array of covers, ranging from traditional Breton dance tu...

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pieces is a fascinating array of covers, ranging from traditional Breton dance tu...