Kelley Polar needs you to hold on

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    Mon, Mar 3, 2008, 00:30
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  • Avant-disco violist Kelley Polar returns with his second album this week.
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  • Kelley Polar’s take on outer-space disco returns this week when his sophomore album I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling drops on Environ. Polar’s previous record, Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens, was produced and mixed by Morgan Geist, Environ label head and one-half of Metro Area, but the newie is merely mixed by Geist, who is obviously busy with a solo album due for release later this year. I Need You to Hold on… sees Polar getting more ornate in the studio with the album including more vocals than ever before. When asked in a recent RA interview about his untrained singing voice, Polar said, “It’s so easy to trash it, because I’m obviously risking humiliation, but luckily I live far enough away from everything that I just said ‘fuck it’ and did it anyway”. Next up? Shows in Europe including a March 22nd gig at Berlin’s Panorama Bar, as well as a fuller tour of the continent later this year. Tracklist 01 A Feeling of the All-Thing 02 Zeno of Elea 03 Entropy Reigns (In the Celestial City) 04 Chrysanthemum 05 Rosenband 06 Satellites 07 A Dream in Three Parts (On Themes by Enesco) 08 We Live in an Expanding Universe 09 Sea of Sine Waves 10 Thurston and Grisha 11 In Paradisum Kelley Polar’s I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling will be released on Environ on March 3, 2008.
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