{"id":20645,"date":"2015-07-08T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=20645"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:49:05","slug":"tmn-radio-new-artist-the-pollies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=20645","title":{"rendered":"TMN Radio New Artist:  The Pollies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=20647\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20647\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20647\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thepollies-nothere-albumcover1-300x270.jpg?resize=300%2C270\" alt=\"thepollies-nothere-albumcover[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>The Pollies appeared on music radar in 2012 with the release of \u201cWhere The Lies Begin\u201d.\u00a0 On September 25, 2015, the Florence, AL-based quintet The Pollies is set to release its new album, Not Here.\u00a0 The album shows the band shedding their alt-country skin in favor of experimental noise and unadulterated risk. Not a surprise from a band that is known for defying genres and leaping over boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you write a song, you have a million different things you can do with that song,\u201d lead singer\/songwriter\/guitarist Jay Burgess says. \u201cOn our records, we always try to shake up the landscape. On this one, we incorporated a lot of elements that we normally wouldn\u2019t think about using. It changed the atmosphere of the music and pushed it in a different direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burgess hits on all the familiar topics\u2014love, loss, regret and triumph\u2014with an edge and ferocity that shows up on tracks like \u201cLost\u201d and \u201cJackson.\u201d Simply put, these are compelling stories\u2014and Burgess has stepped into his own as a gifted storyteller. \u201cLove lost is what drives the record lyrically,\u201d Burgess says. \u201cSome of these songs started as musical ideas\u2014where I\u2019d record something on my phone and then go back three or four times and make sense of the words\u2014and other songs were just there without a lot of work.\u201d Throughout the record, the subject matter changes, but the themes remain: love, loss, regret and triumph. \u201cThe record isn\u2019t just about losing love,\u201d Burgess says. \u201cIt\u2019s about surviving the aftermath of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The title of the album comes from the way Burgess felt when he wrote most of the album, like he was watching his life unfold from afar. \u201cI was almost living parallel to myself,\u201d he explains. \u201cI watched myself react to what some people probably view as \u2018normal life occurrences,\u2019 but for me, someone who\u2019s never been through these kinds of things, it was very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pollies are now playing on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?page_id=8999\">TMN Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pollies appeared on music radar in 2012 with the release of \u201cWhere The Lies Begin\u201d.\u00a0 On September 25, 2015, the Florence, AL-based quintet The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,1832,3402],"tags":[6501,6500,6498,106,6499,6497,3649],"class_list":["post-20645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-kfhs-radio","category-area-music","tag-jackson","tag-lost","tag-not-here","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-jay-burgess","tag-the-pollies","tag-tmn-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20649,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645\/revisions\/20649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}