Polyhymns – Hybrid Sunday

This EP is named “Hybrid Sunday” in reference to Sheffield’s Hybrid 3 Studios where they rehearse. Along with the fact that the band write and record, almost religiously, every Sunday morning. This came about because the band found they were often competing with noise from the bands in the next room, and it was only then that they could ensure peace and quiet.

During the recording they also received guidance from local electronic music wizard Rob Gordon (co-founder of Warp Records) who lent them his Korg synthesiser and mastered the final tracks.

Polyhymns write and produce a mixture of electronic experimental music and psychedelic folk songs and have been described as ‘equally chaotic and serene’ (@B4Tapes).

The band formed in Sheffield in 2019 and comprises of Andrew Bolam, Gavin Harris and Sam Smith and all previously worked together in folktronica group Little Glitches. Their first meeting was in a local night club chill out room bonding over a shared love of Burt Bacharach and Aphex Twin. The group take inspiration from Sheffield’s landscape, from the millstone grit to the ancient woodlands.