is a one man lo-fi project from Birmingham.  He makes fuzzy, noisy, and surprisingly tender songs.  I first encountered him on the Show Me A Word That Rhymes With Pavement compilation earlier on in the year, where he contributed a solid cover of Here.  Since then I’ve got hold of a sampler of his earlier recordings and have been following his current Beat Nostalgia releases, a selection of free EPs over the course of the year.  Recently released EP2 may be the strongest effort yet, in no small part due to the brilliant opening double header of How to Lose at Video Games and When the Controversial Artist Became a Middle-Class Commodity.  Both are seemingly more upbeat than much of his previous work, if only in music and not lyrically.  There’s a certain bleakness that seems to permeate here, which suits Polaroid’s world-weary vocals perfectly.  The EP even manages to find time to throw in a Blur cover, which I’d probably appreciate more if I was familiar with the original song.  Still, well worth clicking through to his site and getting the full EP, as well as his other releases that are there for you to download.

MP3 Captain Polaroid – How to Lose at Video Games

How to Lose at Video Games is taken from Beat Nostalgia EP2.  The EP is part of a series of five Beat Nostalgia EPs that will be released for free download over the coming months.  Both EP1 and EP2 are available to download now from Captain Polaroid’s own website.

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