Hungry Vortex

by Polypores

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Wizards! 11:31
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Void High 09:06

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Released via Feral Child Records
FOR VINYL COPIES email Dom at thegreatpopsupplement@hotmail.com
or visit your favourite online record retailer - Picadillly Records, Normal Records, Juno, Rough Trade, etc.

Stephen James Buckley's incendiary Polypores returns to Feral Child for his most adventurous outing to date, the undeniably psychedelic “Hungry Vortex”. Four extended pieces exploring polyrhythmic fixations and cosmic jazz-prog freak-outs.

Percussion-heavy opener ‘The Body Is The Spaceship’ is a fine example of the sort of seamless organic growth we tend to see in Polypores tracks, with slewed synth blips and rolling polyrhythms gradually twisting into unrecognisable strands of melody and unconventional groove before your very ears.

The prog-tastic ‘Wizards!’ sees Buckley’s trademarked playful use of time-signature changes, providing such a wealth of emotional and stylistic variance and immeasurable enjoyment without changing key once (honestly, who needs keys). It’s brilliantly evocative too and could indeed perfectly soundtrack a mushroom-trip wizard march.

As we flip the record over, the flutey flourishes and minimalist clicks of the title track draw the listener into a trancelike state, repeated movements spiralling like myriad creatures crawling over a candy-coloured horizon, echoing forth into an inviting sonic oblivion. It’s ostensibly electronic, yet somehow more natural organism than machine, with little concern for the grid, or indeed, the rules.

Finally, we end on something a little more subdued - the reassuring classicism of the beautiful ‘Void High’, with washes of warm noise and wobbly delay lines whirring and twinkling away, closing the record with an experience that is undeniably emotional, spiritual and as always, uniquely Polypores.

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released December 2, 2025

Written and performed by Stephen James Buckley - December 2024
Mastered by Anthony Ryan at RedRedPaw
Cover art by Jake Blanchard
Thanks to Dom, Jake, and Anthony
Dedicated to Violet

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Polypores Preston, UK

Intricately woven modular synth tapestries, and whirling psychedelic freak-outs with hypnotic polyrhythms and fuzzed-up drum machines. A riveting artist and performer, channelling the weird energies that make up his fractal musical universe.


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