POLVO - Shapes LP Shoegaze Silkscreened covers and an import

Silkscreened covers and an import from Europe

The inside cover art features Winston Smith's collages

Some songs would become later fully-realized arrangements

Johnny Cash

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POLVO - Shapes LP Shoegaze Silkscreened covers and an importThe continuing evolution of North Carolina's Polvo finally hit its logical endpoint with 1997's SHAPES. With prog, punk, and pronounced Eastern influences all making their voices heard throughout the band's career, the appropriately titled SHAPES twisted into all kinds of musical permutations. Both "The Fighting Kites" and "The Golden Ladder" made explicit their interest in exotic Asian sounds, while "Rock Post Rock" is (despite its title) a