Skating Polly

“Some music gets it. Some music doesn’t get it. This gets it. This is fucking fantastic. I don’t give a shit
about their age. Either music gets it or it doesn’t. And this gets it.” – famed music critic Everett True, after hearing
Skating Polly for the first time, April 2015.
While still in middle school, Skating Polly recorded an album in their living room and called it, “Taking
Over the World.” Today, it seems like they could actually do that. The band’s latest effort, The Big Fit, is their
most fully realized collection of head-bopping, not quite sugar-sweet pop music infused with visceral,
distortion-drenched punk sounds. It’s raw, infectious, and inciting. It’s real.
It’s been six years since those original living room recordings, and the band has released three more
albums, toured extensively in both the U.S. and the U.K. (with their idols, Babes in Toyland), and turned
many of their heroes into vocal fans. They’re even the subject of an upcoming documentary directed by
Henry Mortensen (son of Viggo Mortensen and Exene Cervenka). What’s the fuss about? Mayo sums it up:
“I think people can tell we’re pretty authentic. People can tell when songs don’t mean it, no matter what the
song’s about. We try to be ourselves…and to make everything catchy.”