From the moment the guitars come shining through in the opening seconds of Polyglam’s new single, “Blue Heights”, you know that you’re in the presence of a band comfortable expressing their wildest guitar-pop fantasies. Singer Allie Stamler’s voice is all reflective iridescence, while guitarist-keyboardist Rachel White and drummer-bassist John Sinclair build up the track around her, a whirlwind of gossamer textures and fuzzy contours. They operate within the same musical atmospheres as Alvvays and The Beths, painting a shimmering sunset of infectious harmonies and ringing guitar lines that stretch out to some distant point on the horizon. It’s a minor miracle of pop-rock hypnosis, and you’ll be humming it for days — if not longer. It’s the latest in a string of singles going back to 2023.
The band says that the song was “inspired by young love that exists solely in its own separate universe; a love that creates an intensity between two people that eclipses the world, but is fleeting by the time the sun comes up.”
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“Blue Heights” it out now on Plant Sounds. Look for more from the band later this year. Follow them on X and Instagram.Â
