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Dizzy Demos: 2 Tickets to Cheeseburger in Paradise

by Mike Polizze

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    + Florid green high-bias cassette tape features alien/pyramid/burger art (and a two-cat centerfold) by Mike Polizze, on a two-panel J-card.
    + Available exclusively via direct order from the PoB website and Bandcamp page, in an edition limited to 300 copies only.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Dizzy Demos: 2 Tickets to Cheeseburger in Paradise via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Sign of Life 02:20
Can you see the leaves browning There's no sign of life There's no sign tonight When I crawl to light Can you show me the way I want to go Round the sun again turning Fire burns with life Ambles in tonight Following some light Can you show me the way I want to go Can you show me the way, I want to know
2.
Maybe it’s good to be crazy and laugh with the loonies Crack up all the time Maybe I’m going mad lately, and for this I’m going straight for the jacket Joking in the courtroom, one joke over the line Bananas, don’t you know I’m living in a nightmare swimming Going upstream down Lately, I’m here with the crazies, and we’re all imploding With our limbs all flailing, and the masses are crying Now the world stopped turning, and the flowers are yearning There’s no sun in the morning, are the children still learning? All the marbles are warbled, it’s the captain speaking And we’re having a meeting, on the locomotive Who’s driving this ship anyway? And it’s twisting my melon And it’s hurting my custard, and it’s scrambling my brains
3.
I’m not a man, and you’re all the same as me When I’m chasing my feelings down the street See the people beneath your feet Shadows are everywhere, splintered sunlight is in the air Like laser beams through my hair, but anyway, put that thing away While the children play I’m not alive, and you’re all dead to me, I’m just trying to find something to eat And I’m not drinking, I’m just drunk But I think you need to sit down, I think you need to sit down
4.
It’s never seemed this way before And now I’m knocking on your door, I turn around Eyes reach across, I see your face, and now I’m thinking of your place, I turn around I think I’ll just run away, until you want me to stay I am bound I’m around, you did not know I’m around, you did not show When we grow up and drift away, I’m watching you, and I’m losing you Two ships passing in the night, and I thought we were one of a kind, I burned out You did the crime but not the time, and take my heart but give no part, I turn around I think I’ve lost my way, I don’t wanna see you stray
5.
I think about the sunny Sundays I think about the money Mondays Don't tell me that I'm gonna someday I think about the sunny Sundays I’m with you, you're with me Life is like an old tree I think about the sunny Sundays And walk around alone with you on happy days And pen another lonesome tune on sadder days
6.
I don’t belong in this conversation If you don’t mind, I’d like a reservation To what you see fit in this imposition I’d understand there’s no vacant location Bam-bam a rambling man, a midnight sham Downtown the sound of a crowd and streetlight sound Pouring down the rain parade, I’m not afraid Follow the leader of the blind, tonight’s everything These thoughts are hanging from my sleeve and I don’t mind no more, because You came to me like a revelation You came down from a constellation Right in the middle of a conversation You came to me in a revelation When I’m walking in the morning light It’s brightest in the corners of my mind The streets were filled, the lechers killed temptation The blackest holes have drawn in all the night
7.
When I see the moon in your eyes, and I know what prompts the question Always on your mind When you point the finger, I must linger To the lonely old corners of a foggy mind I’ll follow your footprints, they are gilded I am shielded above it, I’ll do the same tomorrow Went the wrong direction, reaching perfection At losing your attention, always on your mind Bainmarie When you wake in the morning, for the workdays They are long and hopeful, long lost solace find And in rapid succession, I found the weapons To fend off all the brainhurt and befuddled minds Those who are among us, like apparitions Iotas of minutia, find your guiding light Bainmarie
8.
I’m gonna see your face, every corner I turn Running through the dreams, and it’s starting to burn And you call my name, but I don’t turn back I can hear the screams, are you gonna stay awake? Angry little Cheewawa, little Pomeranian Kicking, biting, swinging, scratching me up again Are you gonna fight me now, and she don’t back down I don’t have the time, but it’s gonna take a while Firecracker burning red, sparks are raining thunder Lightning underneath my bed, buckets of cold water Are you gonna douse me now, what’s gonna calm your nerves? Nights and dreams are here, are you gonna fall asleep?

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It’s an unusual occurrence in our experience, but occasionally a record arrives more or less fully formed in its demo phase. Long Lost Solace Find, the irresistible debut solo album by Mike Polizze (Purling Hiss, Birds of Maya) landed in our inboxes as just such a rara avis, to our great delight. Truly, we were floored by the perfect flight path of these skeletal songs, even without their summery studio plumage. Further fledging and local color came courtesy of Mike and engineer and co-producer Jeff Zeigler (The War on Drugs), with an enthusiastic assist from their close Philly friend Kurt Vile, but the bones of these songs were already embedded deep in the demos, structurally, lyrically, and spiritually. They proved to be elegant maquettes for the architecture of the album and a testament to Mike’s careful craftmanship.

So we are proud to present the outrageously titled collection Dizzy Demos: 2 Tickets to Cheeseburger in Paradise, comprising Dizzy Polizzy’s original homebrew demos for six of the twelve final album tracks, along with two studio outtakes from the Long Lost Solace Find sessions, “Sign of Life” and “Sunny Sundays” (which are, in our estimation, just as good as anything on the proper album.) Listen digitally wherever you harvest sounds from the ether, or pick up a florid green cassette, featuring alien/pyramid/burger art (and a two-cat centerfold) by the man himself and available exclusively via direct order from the PoB website and Bandcamp page, in an edition limited to 300 copies only.

credits

released March 5, 2021

All songs written and performed by Mike Polizze.
“Sign of Life” and “Sunny Sundays” were recorded in 2018 by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording, Philadelphia, produced by Mike Polizze and Jeff Zeigler, and mixed by Jeff Zeigler.

All other songs were recorded in 2018 at Studio 545 on a Yamaha MT4X to tape using Maxell XLII Position/High through a Shure 58 microphone. Performed using a Martin and Hohner acoustic guitar, Clayton USA plectrum, and various instruments for the Paradise of Bachelors record label.

Mastered by Patrick Klem, Klemflastic Sound, Durham, NC, 2020.

Mike: vox, guitars, bass, percussion, Farfisa, Wurlitzer, and piano

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Mike Polizze Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The debut solo album by Mike Polizze—and his first release for Paradise of Bachelors—finds the erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman and Birds of Maya shredder stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine.

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