Skating Polly

The Oklahoma City-based duo Skating Polly was formed in ’09 2009 by teenage step-sisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse. Both young women performed for the very first time at their family’s Halloween party, improvising basic music with Bighorse on drums and Mayo playing the two-stringed basitar. Inspired by the outcomes, they began composing songs inspired with the ’70s punk and early-’90s alt-rock they’d noticed off their parents, with both of these switching off on equipment and business lead vocals. Favoring a primitive, punk-influenced design that falls someplace among riot grrrl works like Bikini Destroy and Babes in Toyland, and traditional twee pop like Defeat Occurring and Kimya Dawson, both documented their debut recording, OVERTAKING the Globe, for Norman, Oklahoma-based indie Great People Information. After presenting themselves to X vocalist Exene Cervenka after among her displays, Mayo and Bighorse confident Cervenka to create their second recording, Shed Wonderfuls, in 2011. The recording was combined by Flaming Lip area drummer Kliph Scurlock, and its own achievement led the group to open up trips for prominent indie functions like Deerhoof, Music group of Horses, the Discomfort to be Pure in mind, as well as the Flaming Lip area. Because of their third record, they caused another influential amount, K Records master and Beat Taking place frontman Calvin Johnson. The record, entitled Fuzz Steilacoom, premiered in March 2014 via the duo’s very own Chap Stereo system imprint. 2015 noticed the discharge of a set of brand-new singles as Skating Polly continuing to expand their touring range using a stint helping Babes in Toyland throughout European countries. By year’s end they’d finished their fourth record, The Big Suit, which found its way to March 2016. Among Skating Polly’s developing set of admirers had been Veruca Sodium frontwomen Nina Gordon and Louise Post who reached out afterwards that year seeking to collaborate. Functioning together in LA, the combo composed and documented the three melody EP, New Technique, that was released in Apr 2017.