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Captain

by Polemics

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After spending most of April and May in the studio writing and recording their debut album, Bristol duo Polemics are taking a break from their debut to bring us a new track, Captain, the first of two songs that the band have DYI recorded during lockdown. With a winter tour in the planning and high hopes to be able to bring their sound to sweaty venues (and crowds) around the country, the duo also has plans to drop another EP before unleashing their full potential next year with an album that is already picking the interest of a few labels and agencies.

Captain takes the listener on a stroll through a vision of a post-apocalyptic reality where the historical footprint of the natural world has been buried under the weight of human industry. There’s a sense of a Zeppelin-esque swagger in the guitar riffs and the drums which give the song a real driving momentum as the listener explores the beliefs and feelings of the world created in the song.

The song has been mixed by previous collaborator Joe Garcia of Joe’s Garage who once again nailed the mix, retaining the essence of their raw live power whilst capturing the heavy fusion of their sound, vision and particularly the brilliant self-produced accompanying lyrics video. The release is self produced and distributed with the support of Beatbuzz Records as their management.

lyrics

22nd century scurvy
Polyphonic barbarity
Fungal on the foot of the garden
You’re pulling off a gorgonopod
Spermless is in the grave of the city
Pillow on the jellyfish sea
Corruptor in the genital farmhouse
Kidding me with intimacy

Defeated in the bowels of disease
And sinking
And feeling
Feeling is a peril if there’s not any hope

Following an animal landfill
Tapping on the nozzle at dawn
Policing the container like a Soviet
Shoddily in governance
Sceptre of the lizard in the twilight
Civility did never appear
Courageous in the myth of the old world
The parasite, fallacies

Believing is a bout of reprise
And I’m easy

Fawning at the feet of a dead bird
Bouldering a geyser in the acid rain

Slip inside
Find my carnage
Blots on craters
Dead Creek wanderer
Fall like kingdoms
Sleep in armament
Rot like philanderers
Haberdasher arbitrary
Quiche fest cardinal
Appease me when it’s necessary
Sheathe short customary
Half-time hereditary

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released July 30, 2021
Written and performed by Polemics

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Polemics Bristol, UK

Polemics play loud, gnarly progressive rock with a splash of hard-pop thrown in. The elements of hardcore and angry vocals are matched with clever songwriting, chunky riffs and a pop sensibility that evokes Blur on PCP. They are naming Shellac and The Jesus Lizard as big influences whereas blogs and fans are calling comparisons with IDLES, Fugazi and Primus. ... more

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