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Polygum

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22 days ago

Bandcamp Friday
Today is the day, first Friday of the month 100% of all sales go to the artists. Support a ratman.

Toy music from toy town cassettes are back in stock via my friends at @loveloverecords ❤️

And my most recent album ‘This album has no mastering because I’m too skint and I haven’t the time to learn’ is available for download [CDs dropping real soon]

Support on it has been incredible so far thankyou all for listening - Polygum taken in Glasgow, Scotland by @_rat_man_

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a month ago

Polygon - Toy Music from Toy Town
Cassettes have been re-stocked a few weeks back via @loveloverecords on bandcamp 🧸 taken in Glasgow, United Kingdom by @_rat_man_

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a month ago

Swings & Roundabouts
lyrics

Taken from ‘This album has no mastering because I’m too skint and I haven’t the time to learn’

Out Now on Everything taken in Glasgow, United Kingdom by @_rat_man_

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a month ago

This album has no mastering because I’m too skint and haven’t the time to learn - Polygum

7 tracks out now

Alternate cover images taken by @hoohksallaz These were taken at the end of the midsummer celebrations in Milton Keynes 2024 when I began chasing attendees in the grass on the big artificial hill

It’s bandcamp Friday, buy it 4 a tenner. taken in Milton Keynes by @_rat_man_

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2 months ago

Reality and reflection inside the Snake
[Music Video]

Taken from ‘This album has no mastering because I’m too skint and haven’t the time to learn’

Streaming now

Original photos by @hoohksallaz taken in Glasgow, United Kingdom by @_rat_man_

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

This album has no mastering because I’m too skint and I haven’t the time to learn

Out Today

Track list:

1. Hot Dog Dinners III
2. Blue Shirt Bart
3. Mansfield Park in Spring
4. Reality and reflection inside the Snake
5. Swings & Roundabouts
6. You’re the 1
7. Chinese food II

Cover photograph taken by @hoohksallaz by @_rat_man_

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2 months ago

Toy Music from Toy Town, music 2019 - 2024

5 Cassettes remain get at them

Cassette Rip available on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Av6swir9PPY?si=7pZMXl-LIVRc6ebr

@loveloverecords by @_rat_man_

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10 months ago

CARPET FRIEND

taken from,

TOY MUSIC FROM TOY TOWN

1. Royal Lemon Pie 2. Carpet Friend  3. Redway  4. Deltic Avenue  5. Super Fish  6. Hot Dog Dinners II  7. Druid Sighting 8. Coca Colas at the Multi Screen  9. Kingston Industry 10. Tesco Puma  11. Your Teeth Are Very Clean

2019-2024

OUT TODAY ON STREAMING & CASSETTE VIA @loveloverecords by @_rat_man_

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a year ago

Out today!

Polygum aka Ratman/Violent Beggar/Harry Bismuth makes his debut on Love Love with 'Toy Music from Toy Town'. Hailing from the eerie, utopian city of Milton Keynes, a short ways from London, Polygum first started making braindance music on GarageBand for iPhone SE back in 2019/2020 alongside his studies. Bubbling away in his bedroom studio he hypnotically produces ambient and accelerating child-like beats across a range of styles, sometimes nostalgic and solemn, full of swirling pixie organs, multicoloured melodies and hard hitting trip hop breakbeats. Outside of music Polygum works as a comic artist and freelance graphic designer, most notably designing the infamous hello kitty x aphex twin bootleg shirt produced by Sports Banger.

Polygum makes music that sounds as specific, surreal and uniquely displaced as Milton Keynes life feels - “The whole town feels really artificial like a model or Nuketown which kinda inspired the title. It can get very boring here so playfulness is a real skill used to stay sane, making music from such a place... it ends up getting into the sound”. Often producing tracks after long late shifts at warehouses across the city, fuelled by boredom and inspired by the scenes of each day, the album originally started as a means of capturing his manic relationship with the unsettling hyper-capitalist emptiness and isolation experienced since moving back from home after finishing his studies. 'Toy Music from Toy Town' is a selection of the tracks and experiments made over 2019 - 2024 that were most reflective of these experiences, retrieved from the ammo crate he stores his hard drives in. taken in Milton Keynes by @_rat_man_

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a year ago

Aphex Kitty 2 taken in Leeds Arts University by @_rat_man_

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7 years ago