Mike Polizze is the mastermind behind Purling Hiss when he is not playing guitar for Philadelphia's Birds Of Maya. Hissteria is a 4-track LP featuring fuzzed out guitars, howling/wailing vocals, tons of licks and some fancy soloing fret work. This thing has got psychedelia oozing out everywhere and will leave you thinking you've stumbled upon something directly out of the 70s. According to the band themselves: "Hissteria is a suitable soundtrack for zonked drives across the dead highways of the USA. Or for predawn paranoid sessions as you pace back and forth in the kitchen trying figure out just what the hell you’re going to do, man. Or just crank it real loud when the party gets strange. Some people will love it and the rest of them can just go somewhere else and go fuck themselves." My only dilemma with this recording is the quality. Polizze has gone for an extremely lo-fi sound which I'm told is standard for him. I'm all for lo-fi, I know it's the latest trend but when you've got a sound this expansive, with the amount of instrumentation Polizze's using, there are certainly some things lost in the confusion. The album could definitely benefit from a proper mixing process to give it a much crisper sound. Purling Hiss have already released a follow-up to this album entitled Public Service Announcement and I have a feeling that will make it's way into my stereo in the not too distant future.
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