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To be fair, Polyphia is a great band and Tim Henson still a star instrumentalist...

• svachalek 3y ago
  Yes, I was surprised to find no mention of Polyphia, even to dismiss it. Are they not as popular as I thought?
  • arvinsim 3y ago
    Tim Henson and Yvette Young are the guitarists I enjoy nowadays. it is strange that they are not even mentioned.
  • yamazakiwi 3y ago
    They are reasonably popular but I personally don't find their talent better than other bands I've heard in the past in their genre, even though their main guitarist is quite talented. In contemporary music I believe King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are a better sell for talented instrumentalists.
    • recursive 3y ago
      > mathy Are they? I thought math rock was all about weird time signatures. By contrast, Polyphia is pretty accessible. And I've never heard them play a weird time signature.
      • yamazakiwi 3y ago
        Not actual math rock, I don't want to get into a genre purist debate, but I mean math-esque i.e. mathy. They flirt with changing time signatures across instruments constantly in their music; not necessarily complicated ones, but multiple through each song. I guess this style is more common nowadays with 90% of bands writing straight up label music or their music is influenced by their label so much that they're pressured to pack their music with more dynamics.
  • alex_lav 3y ago
    Anecdotally I've never met another person that'd even heard of them. I only know of them because YouTube forces them at me a lot.
    • yamazakiwi 3y ago
      I saw them live on accident opening for another band. Not knowing I had already seen their guitarist on youtube and tiktok a bunch of times.
  • jasonladuke0311 3y ago
    Someone said they are the first Instagram band and I kind of giggled. Had I not started playing guitar there is no way I would have heard of them.