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Release Date
10 January 1993
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Length
10 tracks
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 Records. “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 lyrics, 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 Popmatters, 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.”
Treble included the album on their list, “Merge Records: 20 Essential Albums”. Similarly, Popmatters included it on “Merge’s Silver Age: 25 Essential Albums Over 25 Years”.
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