View Cart You cannot add that amount to the basket — we have 1 in stock and you already have 1 in your basket. View basket “NOW That’s What I Call Eurovision Song Contest (Box Set)” has been added to your basket. View basket “II (Remastered Original Vinyl)” has been added to your basket. Water On Mars Purling Hiss SKU: DC533 Barcode: 781484053316 13.00 £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City Released Date: 18th March 2013 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Purling Hiss records are a half-corroded, screaming roar of high-end guitars crushed together, obliterating vocals and even drums with their singular assault. With ‘Water On Mars’, Purling Hiss have broken out of the basement, run through the bedroom and are out in the streets. This time the unexpected part is how the guitars gleam so precisely as they pile upon each other, how they work alongside of the rhythm section rather than avalanching it. And how the songs embody a variety of Hiss-teric moods, from the gutbusting bellow of ‘Lolita’ and ‘Face Down’ through the acoustic flatline of ‘Dead Again’, the aromatic slide guitars and piano within ‘She Calms Me Down’, the anthemish surge of ‘Rat Race’ and the wailing march-jam, ‘Water On Mars’. ‘Water On Mars’ is Purling Hiss’s first recording outside the fuzzy confines of Mike Polizze’s inner rock utopia, where the first three albums and EP were constructed in solitude with a home recording setup. Over the past couple of years, Mike’s been working with a band and finetuning new songwriting ideas while playing shows all over the place. Now, Purling Hiss projects their sounds and ideas onto a new platform, with a visceral and soulful presence. Now there is a centre to the Hiss maelstrom, with Polizze’s guitars slugging, sizzling and spiraling their way around the rhythm throb. Polizze lyricises like a poet of the disaffected, shifting from aggro to slack and back over the course of a song. The production highlights this by buffing the raw power into a streamlined blast, hitting down hard and covering a lot of ground in just over a half hour. Adam Granduciel from The War On Drugs helped produce and plays a bit of piano on ‘Water On Mars’. Artist Purling Hiss Genre Rock And Pop Label Drag City Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Lolita Mercury Retrograde Rat Race Dead Again She Calms Me Down Face Down The Harrowing Wind Water On Mars Mary Bumblebee Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Purling Hiss and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Purling Hiss Drag On Girard Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Drag City | 1LP Released 24th March 2023 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Purling Hiss Drag On Girard £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Drag City SKU: DC780 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Purling Hiss High Bias Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Drag City | 1LP Released 11th October 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Purling Hiss High Bias £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Drag City SKU: DC652 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Purling Hiss Weirdon Rock And Pop | Drag City | 1LP Released 22nd September 2014 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Purling Hiss Weirdon £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC598 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Purling Hiss Dizzy Polizzy Rock And Pop | Drag City | 1LP Released 21st April 2014 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Purling Hiss Dizzy Polizzy £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC590 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st April 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Suuns Hold/Still (Indies Only) Rock And Pop | Secretly Canadian | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th April 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Suuns Hold/Still (Indies Only) £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Secretly Canadian SKU: SC329LP-C1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fono Kinetic EP Rock And Pop | Polydor | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 14th October 2016 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fono Kinetic EP £10.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor SKU: 5708786 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 14th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cribs, The 24-7 Rock Star Shit Rock And Pop | Sonic Blew | 1LP Released 18th November 2022 £22.00 Select options Cribs, The 24-7 Rock Star Shit £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sonic Blew Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th November 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Linkin Park Reanimation Rock And Pop | Warner Bros | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 3rd June 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Linkin Park Reanimation £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Bros SKU: 0093624920830 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 3rd June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sweet, The Give Us A Wink Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 1LP Released 24th April 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sweet, The Give Us A Wink £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music SKU: 88985357631 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Katzenjammer Rockland Rock And Pop | Propeller Recordings | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 23rd February 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Katzenjammer Rockland £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Propeller Recordings SKU: PRR114 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 23rd February 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Dylan Under The Red Sky Rock And Pop | Columbia | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 20th September 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Dylan Under The Red Sky £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Columbia SKU: 19075846941 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kings of Leon Can We Please Have Fun Rock And Pop | Capitol | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th May 2024 £26.00 - 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