MIKE POLIZZE Long Lost Solace Find
“Went the wrong direction, reaching perfection”
PHILADELPHIA isn’t a place generally spoken of with the same reverence as those other, more mythologised centres of American rock’n’roll –›a Seattle, say, a Detroit or a New York City. All the same, for the last decade or so the city has kept hitting home runs. From hometown heroes The War On Drugs, Kurt Vile and Steve Gunn to a rich punk rock demimonde that includes Sheer Mag, Swearin’ and other paragons of the DIY sound, recent times have seen Philly kicking out the jams with the best of them. But if Philadelphia lacks the hype afforded to some of its peers, it means that it can
