Pollen

Peach Tree (Wind-Up)
by Austin Nash

Whoa, I think we got us a fight here. Step outside minding your Bees, cause it’s Pollen season. The question is which one. When I plug Pollen into the almighty all-knowing, already boorish Web, the band on Wind Up, who sounds just like ALL, is not at ALL what I find. I find another set of guys in Santa Barbara with a completely separate everything (except the two Siamese joined at the nuts), save for the band name. This probably won’t be news to the fellas in the-the-well hell, let me just encode it.

If Bandhttp://www-vis.lbl.gov/~kac/Pollen/Home.html = Pollen.WindUp Then MsgBox “Somebody’s screwing in the back seat of your band van” Else MsgBox = “Austin is a idiot and missed something obvious” End If

The truth is that I threw in the new album from Pollen, Peach Tree, and thought, Jesus this sounds a lot like ALL, and found, or so I thought, that I was correct: Mixed at the Blasting Room in Ft. Collins, CO, by Bill Stevenson and Stephen Egerton. These fucking guys are busy, busy wrecking their own sound that is. When another disk came on that sounded like ALL I felt inclined to investigate. Intuitive research revealed that the first disc was really from GoodBye Harry ,in which Scott Reynolds (former ALL vocalist for you block heads) was the minstrel. Now I was on to Pollen for real, or maybe I was really on Pollen, as I was feeling very confused. Confusion seems to be the gist of this mess, but hey – I got nothing against making a mess of gist.

Pollen: Band good, production crisp, loud (see Allroy’s Revenge +), love hate pop songs. I need a drink, you have one too, it’s on me.