Polvo - Polvo Artist_Recondite the album was initially self-released

the album was initially self-released in homemade sleeves housing CD-Rs burned on the band's parents' computers

such as Donavon Frankenreiter and Corinne Bailey Rae

rounded off with church bells

traditional percussion and infectious Mande guitar grooves

‘Clearest Blue’

Polvo - Polvo Artist_Recondite the album was initially self-releasedCheck out the first 18 or so seconds of Can I Ride, the title track on the first release by Polvo, the two guitar juggernaut that represented the other side of Chapel Hill indie rock (more on that in a moment). That two note riff, and the guitar twang that follows, recalls the opening notes on another monster song: The Sprawl, a key track on Sonic Youths epochal Daydream Nation, an album released in October 1988, less than two years before Polvo