Standing alone in the cold north, militant DIY dance punk duo, Polevaulter toil and labour to explore the limits of underground achievement. Known the land over for their hypnotic live performances home and away, the Northern noisemakers have built from nothing something few can argue with.
The sonic assault the two create is almost arrogant, fathered from the marriage of seismically sharp bass and loin-grinding beats. The words are quipped and brayed atop the aural landscape. They are boastful, accusing, repellent and inviting, they question and skewer the veins of masculinity, sexuality, the order of things, the music industry and the miserable reality of the North. Toured with JOHN, shared a stage with Thank, Mandy Indiana, Pink Turns Blue, Bambara, A Place To Bury Strangers, VR Sex, and others.
After dropping the awesomely glitchy ‘Violently Ill’ on 9th Jan, Polevaulter continue to turn up the heat with jarring new single ‘Pissed In The Baths’ out 19th Jan. These new tracks come as Polevaulter announce their debut album ‘Hang Wave’ for release on 26th January and UK/EU tour dates starting February.
Check out the single here: https://open.spotify.com/
On writing the track, Polevaulter’s Jon Franz explains; “Pissed In The Baths came about from Dan’s chorus riff which he just pulled out of thin air, we made the verses more straight and got it to swing with my delay. I wrote the lyrics pretty quickly on a bus to the doctors, lyrically it’s about manifesting strength and about us setting sail, I tied the chorus into it as those lines came from a while ago about warming oceans and rising sea levels, it all got glued together.”
The result is a cacophonous injection of climate change activism, brimming with hypnotic beats and thick fuzzy bass and glossed in a coat of sharp unnerving darkness. Chaotic and smashing you in the face with its tidal wave of full-on noise and addictive shouted refrains, Polevaulter are not holding any punches with ‘Pissed In The Baths’ as they continue on their bulldozer-like mission to tear up boundaries.
Polevaulter recently performed their debut album on repeat for 8 hours straight via a livestream to raise funds for the Gaza Sunbirds, a para cycling team based in the Gaza Strip. The team is currently providing emergency food parcels and aid to families sheltering around the Gaza Strip. Watch the livestream back here: https://www.youtube.com/live/fozLRUBKzAE?si=1Zc6upxFdC0cQJLO – And to donate visit: https://www.justgiving.com/page/polevaulterforgazasunbirds
Pre-save ‘Hang Wave’ here: https://polevaulter.ffm.to/hangwave
Polevaulter will tour the UK and EU as follows:
Jan 31st – The Fenton, Leeds – Album launch
Feb 2nd – Hatch, Sheffield
Feb 3rd – Little Buildings, Newcastle
Feb 6th – New Adelphi, Hull
Feb 7th – The Lounge, Manchester
Feb 8th – Old Blue Last, London
Feb 9th – Bear Cave, Bournemouth w/ JOHN
Feb 10th – Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes w/ JOHN
Feb 13th – DAda, Toulouse, France
Feb 14th – TBA, France
Feb 15th – Le Lezard, France
Feb 16th – Melody Maker, Rennes, France
