Ice princess

I wonder if Kelley Polar likes figure skating. The sport speaks to the kind of challenges he seems interested in—the technically agile, flamboyant, self-consciously eccentric kind. To extend the metaphor, it's possible to view his second album, I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling, as a most respectable, but ultimately unstuck, sort of musical quadruple salchow. In figure skating's weighted scoring system, it's conventional to give someone who attempts a really difficult, interesting new trick some extra credit. Let's give it some points for trying anyway, shall we?

The rest of my review of Kelley Polar's delightfully weird second record is just a triple loop away.