Purling Hiss - High Bias (CD) |

It’s dark outside our window, with thunder echoing over the horizon—a familiar rumble, but we can’t tell where it’s headed. Does this mean Purling Hiss are coming back our way? Among other things, YES. High Bias is in the air.  There’s no place like America today— but that’s been true of our lunatic colony for a long time. Purling Hiss have floated through the sewer of US culture their whole lives. Growing up in a time like the 80s made a professional dreamer out of Mike Polizze, fueling a desire to escape to the perfect world where music amplifies the pain or just plain DROWNS IT OUT.  Since 2009, the fuzzing rock power of Purling Hiss has taken many different forms, all emanating from of Polizze’s instinctive approach to playing guitar, writing songs and hooking a feeling from disparate memories, sensations and desired effects. At times carefree and apparently footloose in the world, other times intensely focused and wrathful, Purling Hiss are the orphaned kids of last century’s rock and roll generations, lost in a society that has forgotten its way but determined to find their feet again.  High Bias moves with rageful, dazed humor and soulfulness against the darkening times in which we find ourselves. With no way out, Purling Hiss hit today’s bullshit head-on, employing pounding psych-rock and punk effects, slipping signature Hissian backup “oo- oo-ooh”s and Polizze’s blistering guitar pile-ups in a full-bodied, head-ripping brew.  Mike puts together a Purling Hiss album as a whole thing, with songs striking defiant and wistful tones in turn, mixing in odes to impermanence, spite- filled rebellion and bemused recollections along the way. High Bias kicks off at 11, blowing with first take energy i