Polvo - Polvo Artist_Recondite hit the gray skies of

hit the gray skies of the pandemic’s year-and-a-half mark like a double rainbow

traditional percussion and infectious Mande guitar grooves

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

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Polvo - Polvo Artist_Recondite hit the gray skies ofCheck 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