Mike Polizze - Around Sound

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Released 11/7/25

he second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks affirms his status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his fingerstyle acoustic guitar magic and finally manifesting the title of the classic Hiss anthem “Run from the City.” Despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks, Around Sound is a rainier and more pensive affair than its pandemic-era predecessor, Long Lost Solace Find (2020). It affirms Polizze’s status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his fingerstyle acoustic guitar magic and finally manifesting the title of the classic 2010 Hiss anthem “Run from the City.” If Long Lost Solace Find revealed the sunshine and sweetness sometimes veiled by the combustible guitar leads and sheer volume of Purling Hiss (especially in their live incarnation), then Around Sound complicates that picture, infilling a dusky chiaroscuro, ambiguous shadows that play across the late afternoon light.