Polvo (US)

Polvo is a math rock legend, founded over 20 years ago in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They know how to write songs, but then they go and spoil it all with their noisy sound, dissonance, and out-of-tune guitars. They know how to write lyrics, but the words are so psychedelic that it’s hard to figure out what they’re about. The group dropped off the face of the earth in 1998, four albums into their career, only to reappear ten years later with performances at All Tomorrow’s Parties and Primavera Sound. It’s been three years, and they’re still on stage. Their latest album, In Prism, came out in 2009.