Polysics, three mysterious characters, half animal, half machine, transported back through time from Neo Tokyo making music that will flatten cities, drain oceans and split atoms. So powerful is their music that on hearing it, normal people (i.e. you and I) have been known to believe the earth has moved, it has not, merely the sonic attack which is Polysics has shaken the Earth from it's elliptical orbit causing fissures in time and space. Believe!
This daring unit of three: Hayashi (Guitar, Voice, Programming), Kayo (Synthesiser, Vocoder, Voice) and Fumi (Bass, Voice, Synthesiser), the spiritual sons and daughters of Devo, forge their riveting music using conventional rock instruments, augmented by synthesiser, vocoder, and computer programming. Polysics claim their intentions are simply to create new music by unifying 'inflectional electronic sound that sticks and repeats itself in one's head' along with 'ultimately distorted guitar noise'. By default or design, the outcome of this fusion is enormously compelling. Music with the power to stop time.... then start it again in fast-forward.
The official story states that Polysics formed in 1997 in Tokyo, Japan when young Hayashi, out of respect to Devo, begins making sounds under the name Polysics. 1998 would see him enlist Kayo into the band. In 1999 the first Polysics album ('1st P') was released. Also this year the band's line-up was complete with the addition of Fumi on Bass. Inspired by their new recruit, the band wasted no time in recording and releasing their second album 'A,D,S,R,M'. The years since then have seen the band rise to a deserved level of fame and notoriety in their native Japan. In total they have released six albums, two mini albums, 1 live album and no less than 4 video/DVDs capturing their legendary live shows. Along the way there have been dramatic encounters with Mutato Muzika of Devo, three US tours and a collaboration with Nick Beggs of Kaja Goo Goo (on huge live favourite 'Kaja Kaja Goo') and even an appearance on Adam And Joe. Their image has changed consistently and their sound has mutated and grown with every release, it is as if with every record Polysics have further distilled the essence of punk and pop.
Anyone searching for hidden meanings should take heed, Hayashi himself says 'there is no hidden message in our music, we are more about big statements'. Consider for example the track 'Code 4' "every night, every time, every sky, every space, every town, every world, this song sounds good for you and me" or alternatively 'Modern' "I will sing you something cool, I will sing you something new, I will sing you something cool, I will sing you 1.2.3.GO!" Theirs is truly the sound of the young heart in the modern age.
