Mistletone

The swirling sound of Purling Hiss is a half-corroded, screaming roar of high-end guitars crushed together, obliterating vocals and drums with their singular assault. With Water On Mars, Purling Hiss have broken out of the basement, run through the bedroom and are now loose, out in the streets, blasting a great guitar album, the first full band studio release from Philly dudes Mike Polizze & co.

Water On Mars is Purling Hiss‘s first recording outside the fuzzy confines of Mike Polizze’s inner rock utopia, where the first three albums and EP were constructed in solitude with a home-recording setup. Over the past couple years, Mike’s been working with a band and fine-tuning new songwriting ideas while playing shows all over the place. Now there is a center to the Hiss maelstrom, with Mike’s guitars slugging, sizzling and spiraling their way around the rhythm throb, singing disaffected in shifts both aggro and slack (and around to the back) through the course of a song, with production highlighting the schiz by buffing the raw power into a streamlined blast. If that doesn’t rattle your caveman brain, nothing will!

Purling Hiss have a deeply satisfying way of drawing from the red, white and blue wells of 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s rock to inform their own sound, giving things a retro ring while doing what they do in the Philadelphia of today – and no other time could apply, really. So bring your neanderthal face out to space, grab a glass, and prepare for a pour from Water On Mars, Purling Hiss‘ first banger for Mistletone, out March 15!

“Water On Mars feels like the American underground have thrown up another garage free spirit who, like Ty Segall and Kurt Vile in recent years, has the chops and tunes and, now, relative discipline to get across to a substantially bigger crowd” – UNCUT

Promo video:

TRACK LISTING

1. Lolita 4:27
2. Mercury Retrograde 3:33
3. Rat Race 3:05
4. Dead Again 1:37
5. She Calms Me Down 2:44
6. Face Down 3:33
7. The Harrowing Wind 3:47
8. Water on Mars 7:10
9. Mary Bumble Bee 3:04