- An Interview with Polly Panic Jammerzine Exclusive 40:46
Polly Panic is back! I have to start this by simply saying that. This is huge. And I am proud that we get to talk with Polly herself about her triumphant return to form with her new album, ‘Losing Form’ and the story behind its inception and creation. We also get to talk to Polly about her stint in Rasputina and her gravitation to the music career that has put her music in our ears and creative mind in our hearts.
‘Losing Form’ will be available in stores as of release day and can be ordered digitally via Bandcamp. CDs be purchased in advance at Polly Panic’s live show and pre-ordered via the artist’s website.
Polly Panic is currently touring the East Coast to promote this album (dates below), together with drummer Caleb Beissart, spreading the gospel of the southern-gothic high priestess of cello rock.
About Polly Panic
Cello-shredding rock siren Polly Panic is back with her third studio album ‘Losing Form’, to be released on CD and digitally via Write Hook Records on November 20. This is Polly Panic’s first album in six years, following ‘Fragment’ (2012) and ‘Painkiller’ (2006).
Polly Panic is Jenette Mackie, who wrote and recorded the 10 songs comprising this album in 2016-2017, sandwiching the process around time spent rehearsing and touring both coasts with her cello-driven band Rasputina, founded by Melora Creager and formerly including Zoë Keating and Julia Kent.
Arguably the best Polly Panic album yet, this also represents a turning point for this artist, having joined forces with Write Hook Records on the heels of touring as part of Rasputina. Inspired by PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, and Nirvana, this is cello-driven art rock with intense, powerful vocals and lyrics that take center stage.
Driven by a nucleus of cello, drums and vocals, these tunes are woven from tales of lustful obsession (‘Side Piece’), co-dependent addiction (‘Losing Form’), joy in realizing you don’t need who and what you thought you needed (‘Hollows’), and a scorned lover’s lethal revenge (the anthemic rocker ‘Annie’, an ode to Annie Oakley and to women everywhere who live life and experience love on their own terms).
Polly Panic’s uniquely dark and theatrical chamber rock has a sound that’s much larger than one would expect from just one vocalist playing the cello along with a drummer.
@pollypanic [rotatingtweets screen_name=’pollypanic’]“I knew the cello could be everything. Of all the instruments, the cello is closest to the human voice and its capacity for expressing emotion is unparalleled. It was the most fierce and yet the softest most sorrowful instrument I had ever heard,” says Polly Panic.
“This album represents the strength to march on, being inspired by self-examination and reason for existence.”
Indeed Polly Panic herself had gone through massive challenges to continue with her art, from constant touring and getting sober to label changes and childbirth. Every step of the way has defined her to find that Polly Panic was not just something she did… It was who she is.
On ‘Losing Form’, Polly Panic got a helping hand from recording engineer Stephen Shoenecker at the Heritage Music studio in Bristol, Tennessee, studio drummer Ryan Rasnake, and mastering engineer Seva (Corrosion of Conformity) at Soundcurrent Mastering.
SOURCE: Official Bio
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