Like Hearts Swelling

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Like Hearts Swelling
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Studio album by Polmo Polpo
Released September 22, 2003
Recorded Sandro Perri's home in Toronto, spring 2000–2003
Genre Post-rock
Dark ambient
Ambient techno
Length46:53
Label Constellation CST026
Producer Sandro Perri
Polmo Polpo chronology
The Science of Breath
(2002) The Science of Breath2002
Like Hearts Swelling
(2003)
Kiss Me Again and Again
(2005) Kiss Me Again and Again2005
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Like Hearts Swelling is a 2003 album by Polmo Polpo. This album is the first release by Polmo Polpo after switching to Constellation Records.

Constellation Records is a Canadian independent record label based in Montreal, Quebec. It has released albums by many post-rock bands, including Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band and Do Make Say Think.

The third track, "Farewell", was played by John Peel on BBC Radio 1. Tracks 1, 2 and 4 were remixed mainly acoustically for the album Plays Polmo Polpo, Sandro Perri's first album under his own name.

John Peel English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft,, known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.

<i>Plays Polmo Polpo</i> extended play by Sandro Perri

Plays Polmo Polpo is the first record by Sandro Perri under his own name. The first three tracks are covers of songs off of Perri's album Like Hearts Swelling, which he released in 2003 under the name Polmo Polpo. The album was released on September 26, 2006 on Constellation Records.

Track listing

  1. "Romeo Heart" – 7:55
  2. "Requiem for a Fox" – 11:04
  3. "Farewell" – 5:04
  4. "Sky Histoire" – 13:10
  5. "Like Hearts Swelling" – 9:40


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