Viking's Choice: Polvo Reissues, Speed Punk, Apocalyptic Rebetika
In the '90s Chapel Hill scene, Polvo stood out for how little it wanted to fit in. Those reissues, plus new music from Code Orange and Chubby and the Gang and old music from Greece.
imagined a language as thick and viscous as cheese grits. Here was an indie-rock band of Southerners, messing with alternate guitar tunings based on Indian and Middle Eastern drones, noodlin' on aberrant grooves that simultaneously repelled and sucked in ears attuned to a long-winded, surprisingly catchy weirdness. Sharing stages and a label with and Archers of Loaf through the '90s Chapel Hill scene, Polvo stood out for how little it wanted to
