Today's Active Lifestyles

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Today’s Active Lifestyles is the second studio album by American indie rock band Polvo. It was produced by Bob Weston and released on Merge Records in 1993. Early versions of the cover art featured red tigers in the yellow colour field, but these were soon removed due to a lawsuit from its painter Andy Freeburn. The album was released on Merge Record. “Tilebreaker” was released as a 7” single with the song “Chameleon” and the instrumental “Tiara Fetish” on the B-side. (“Tiara Fetish” would later appear, with lyric, as the song “Watch the Nail” on the Merge compilation 5 Rows of Teeth.) American music magazine "Under the Radar" called the album a “gift” that “explode your mind with inventive guitar work.” Dusted Magazine called it “fresh and off-the-cuff”. The album is now described by many as being a “landmark” and a “classic”. According to Popmatter, the album along with its follow up “found the best balance between assaulting you with bending notes one moment, and soaring over you with crunching anthems the next.” Peter Watts of Uncut reviewed the album’s 2020 reissue very positively, and hailed the closing track “Gemini Cusp” as a “lo-fi prog masterpiece.” .

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