Interview with Skating Polly
We had the pleasure of interviewing Skating Polly over Zoom video!
Skating Polly share \u201cI\u2019m Sorry For Always Apologizing\u201d \u2013 a deceptively joyous rock song that is accompanied by the official music video directed by Christian Papierniak. The multiple award-winning director, producer, and writer best known for his hit Indie feature film Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town brings the track to life with a humorous touch.
\u201cI\u2019m Sorry For Always Apologizing\u201d follows the raucous single \u201cHickey King\u201d and is the second track to be taken from Skating Polly\u2019s new album Chaos County Line, which is set for release on June 23rd via El Camino Media. \u201cDoctors don\u2019t think I\u2019m sick / Just a self important prick\u201d Kelli Mayo sings sweetly, sending up her past relationship mistakes with a cutting sense of self-judgement.
"This song has some of my favorite lyrics on the record" Kelli comments. "It was originally inspired by my very real habit of over apologizing, then the concept came to me to write it from a perspective of constantly hurting someone you're wildly in love with, which is a feeling I unfortunately know all too well. So, some of it is definitely hyperbole, but some of it is about my short-lived love affair with the bass player from Starcrawler. And the super huge prick I make myself out to be as the narrator is my big fear of how I must've come across to him and is also a furthering of many apologies I've given him on the matter...
"Over the past decade, few artists have embodied the unbridled freedom of punk like Skating Polly. Formed when stepsisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse were just 9 and 14, the band have channeled their chameleonic musicality into a sound they call \u201cUgly Pop,\u201d unruly and subversive and wildly melodic. With Kelli\u2019s brother Kurtis Mayo joining on drums in 2017, they\u2019ve also built a close-knit community of fans while earning the admiration of their musical forebears, a feat that\u2019s found them collaborating with icons like X\u2019s Exene Cervenka and Beat Happening\u2019s Calvin Johnson, touring with Babes In Toyland, and starring as the subject of a feature-length documentary. On their forthcoming double album Chaos County Line, Skating Polly reach a whole new level of self-possession, ultimately sharing their most expansive and emotionally powerful work to date.
The follow-up to 2018\u2019s The Make It All Show, Chaos County Line finds Skating Polly showcasing the depth of their growth, both as songwriters and personally. Whether they\u2019re opening up about matters internal (identity, disassociation, unhealthy coping mechanisms) or external (obsession, deception, gaslighting), Skating Polly imbue that outpouring with an unfettered emotional truth.
Working again with Brad Wood, the acclaimed producer behind indie-rock classics like Liz Phair\u2019s Exile in Guyville, Chaos Country Line sees their songs journey from art-punk to noise-rock to piano-driven power-pop, matching that musical complexity with a sharply honed narrative voice that manifests in countless forms (ultravivid poetry, diary-like confession, fearlessly detailed storytelling, etc.).
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