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A couple of weeks ago we told you about how the Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter wants to hypnotize your children with his new Wee See project. Now it apparently appears he wants to mind control your pets as well! This video for the Spree’s “Oh, I Feel Fine,” which was released a couple of months ago, is pretty hilarious, as DeLaughter attempts to explain the glory that is a Polyphonic Spree show to his dog, Abbey. The basset hound, however, seems unimpressed. Tough crowd. The video was done by Miles Hargrove, and uses the remix of the song made by Philip E Karnats of The Secret Machines. Check it out below.

Read any interview with Polyphonic Spree frontman Tim Delaughter from the past year, including our own, and the word that will inevitably surface is “urgent.” The Fragile Army seemed intended to be a response to the times, a fierce bolstering against the nation’s current politics with a joyous, and more rock-oriented, catharsis. But while the album does undoubtedly shift the Spree into harder, more pressurized terrain, its sense of urgency and even necessity is much less convincing.

6/18/07
The Polyphonic Spree are finally marching en masse as they prepare this week for the official release of The Fragile Army, which was originally slated to make it out of the shop last July. But the wait doesn’t seem to have quelled the exuberant troupe in the least, and they recently produced the first video from the new album, “Running Away.”

The video was made by taking over 70,000 still photos and running them together. While the end result is s a bit shaky and schizophrenic, and at times makes Tim DeLaughter look like he’s throwing a tantrum, it’s a pretty impressive feat and the outcome well worth checking out. The video was directed and put together by Hal Samples and Julie Doyle, although they stress at the end that no video was used in the making of the video, which of course begs the question of if in fact it is, then, a video. Go ahead and wrap your head around that one on a Monday.

3/12/07
Tim DeLaughter and company, who will be suiting up, as opposed to robing up, and hitting SXSW once again this year, have finally announced some more details about their much anticipated and long-awaited third full-length. In a Forkin’ exclusive, the head Spree-er announced the tracklist for The Fragile Army and that the album would be out in June on TVT Records, an eclectic label if ever there was one.

Interestingly enough, the two new tracks from last fall’s Wait EP are not on the final cut, as DeLaughter had originally anticipated in our interview with him last year. He does promise though for the album to maintain its explosive edge and attack on current affairs.

8/17/06
In an interview in conjunction with the DT Weekend, Polyphonic Spree choral-master Tim DeLaughter revealed details of a new EP to be released on September 3. The EP will be called “Wait” and features two new songs and three covers.

The title is appropriate enough for fans who have been anxiously anticipating the group’s third album, The Fragile Army. Originally scheduled for release this summer, that date has been pushed back to now have us waiting until the Spring of 2007. It’s reported to offer 13 songs and is being recorded, oddly enough, by pAper chAser John Congleton.