Long time fans of The Pollies know them as an alt-country band, but on Not Here they are moving into a decidedly different direction. Its a more produced sound, full of lush atmospherics providing a base for some top notch late-night achey rock & roll walls of sound and bittersweet, surprisingly poignant lyrics. It will tap into long forgotten memories and childhood stories and broken first loves and a time when everything feels alive.
Recorded at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, MS, and produced by Ben Tanner (of Alabama Shakes) and The Pollies’ lead singer and songwriter, Jay Burgess, the album is the band’s first for Single Lock/Thirty Tigers and the follow-up to their 2012 release, Where the Lies Begin. The album shows the band shedding their alt-country skin in favor of…
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…experimental noise and unadulterated risk. Not a surprise from a band that is known for defying genres and leaping over boundaries.
“When you write a song, you have a million different things you can do with that song,” lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Jay Burgess says. “On our records, we always try to shake up the landscape. On this one, we incorporated a lot of elements that we normally wouldn’t think about using. It changed the atmosphere of the music and pushed it in a different direction.”