New Noise Rock From Polvo, Singer-Songwriter A.A. Bondy, Danish Pop And More : All Songs Considered On this edition of All Songs Considered: Chapel Hill band Polvo, new music from the Danish band Mew, singer-songwriter A.A. Bondy, an ambitious new album from the folk-rock group Noah and the Whale.

New Noise Rock From Polvo, Singer-Songwriter A.A. Bondy, Danish Pop And More

New Noise Rock From Polvo, Singer-Songwriter A.A. Bondy, Danish Pop And More

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The Chapel Hill, NC band Polvo made a name for itself in the 1990s with off-kilter rhythms, dissonant guitars and cryptic wordplay. The band broke up in 1998, but is back with its first new studio album in 12 years. It's called In Prism. Hear a cut from that record on this edition of All Songs Considered, plus new music from the Danish band Mew, singer-songwriter A.A. Bondy, an ambitious new album from the folk-rock group Noah and the Whale, an intercontinental collaboration via e-mail from the band Bell Horses, and Swedish musician Axel Willner, a.k.a. The Field.

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New Noise Rock From Polvo, Singer-Songwriter A.A. Bondy, Danish Pop And More

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Dream Residue/Work

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Polvo

  • Song: Dream Residue/Work
  • from In Prism
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Sometimes Life Isn't Easy

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Mew

  • Song: Sometimes Life Isn't Easy
  • from No More Stories Are Told Today Sorry...
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I Can See the Pines Are Dancing

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A.A. Bondy

  • Song: I Can See the Pines Are Dancing
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Blue Skies

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Noah and The Whale

  • Song: Blue Skies
  • from First Days of Spring
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Dust of Us

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Bell Horses

  • Song: Dust of Us
  • from This Loves Last Time
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Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime

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The Field

  • Song: Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
  • from Yesterday and Today