Palarity: Takes their listeners to unexpected places.

Toronto proggers Polarity and their latest EP  Live Off The Floor At Jukasa Studio, released on August 26th. The new EP was recorded in collaboration with Juno Award-winning producers Darren Magierowski and Jill Zimmermann (Alexis on Fire, Protest The Hero). During the live-off-the-floor recording sessions, the band was filmed by renowned videographer Mike Filsinger (30 Seconds to Mars, Three Days Grace) who captured the intensity and finesse of the band’s performance. The track Circle,  the band’s most technically metal / jazzy alternative song on the record.

Lyrics:

Sometimes I wonder what I question to be true

Chasing my tail no bites just proves I’m wrapped around you

Round and round and round we go

Where it stops we’ll never know

I can’t see your vertigo’s passed unto me

Hallway of mirrors does it get any more clear

Around we’ll spin and neither of us will win

So Run

I want to loose us now

But we’re so far down

I want to loosen this grip

But I’m scared of the trip

And there we are back to the place we knew our love was true

Yesterday’s fight a very distant I hate you

Round and round and round we go

A ferris wheel of how we feel

I am blinded by the split second I feel good inside

Hallway of mirrors does it get any more clear

Around we’ll spin, getting nauseous in the wind

So Run

I want to loose us know

But we’re so far around

I want to loosen this grip

But I’m scared of the trip

What you seek in vain you’ll never find

Round we go

Track Listing:

1. Destruction of Memory

2. Terra Firma

3. Circle – 3:56

Polarity is:

Julian Ryan Craig (Drums)

Deren Bostanci (Bass)

Jasmine Virginia (Vocals)

Sheldon Fernandes (Guitar)

Michael Sitana (Guitar)

Polarity is the result of a musical friendship lasting over a decade and has grown steadily since its inception in 2008. Their goal has always been to make music that makes a positive impact, and they have no plans of stopping anytime soon. Vulnerability is encouraged, expressed, and complemented by a rhythmic sensibility that cuts through the static and connects with audiences in a meaningful way.

The band has previously released two albums and two EPs working alongside Grammy-winning producer David Bottrill on their album Action Potential with mastering on all their recordings done by Joao Carvalho. Polarity also has hundreds of Canadian performances under their belt where they have supported bands such as Sum 41, Kittie, The Flatliners, The Agonist, Sumo Cyco, and more. The track Destruction Of Memory

Polarity’s fifth recorded offering was released on August 26th and is their first new music since releasing the 2019 EP Trilateral. Featuring three tracks recorded live off the floor, it’s all-natural, pure talent being showcased from the proggy 7-minute opening epic Destruction Of Memory, to Terra Firma, which blends a bit of their softer side with some straight-up rock riffs, to EP closer Circle that pushes the band to new limits from clean to scream vocals along with intricate jazzy and dissonant chords while playing interesting rhythms into hard-hitting breakdowns. The track Terra Firma,

«We always want to take our listeners to different unexpected places, both powerful and vulnerable. I would say we like to surprise people and give them something unconventional that makes them really think. We’re not afraid to do things a little outside the box and sometimes that means asking people to listen a few times to a song before they really get it. We often get feedback once they do and they truly love it». says Jasmine Virginia.

«I honestly think there are so many different types of Polarity fans and with these three songs, there is something for everyone. For Circle, this is the first song where we’ve overlaid screaming with a clean vocal, which we’re loving so you’ll be hearing more of this type of thing coming from us in the future. For the meaning of track itself, Circle is about the circle and cycle of being stuck in a relationship that you just know isn’t for you which seems to be a huge part of the human condition».

«So many people I know and I’ve been in the situation before, where we feel we are trapped or stuck in a broken relationship. It’s a continuous circle of fighting and then making up but still knowing and feeling confused as to why you keep running this circle that is not working ….until it’s finally broken, if it ever is….?», adds vocalist Jasmine Virginia

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