Provocateurs
AGITATORS. MERRY PRANKSTERS. TIM HENSON AND SCOTT LePage,the diabolical guitar duo and main drivers of the Dallas-based progressive band Polyphia, own up to all of it. Over the course of the group’s 12-year career, the two ax wizards have delighted in busting balls and messing with their fans’ heads (who can forget the band’s aptly titled 2017 EP, The Most Hated, on which the celebrated virtuosos purposely featured nary a lick of fretboard theatrics?), and in preparation for the release of their new album, Remember That You Will Die — their first studio offering since 2018’s New Levels New Devils — they came up with their most devious plan yet: the grand fake-out.
“First, we made everybody wait a really long time,” Henson says. “We teased that we had a new album in 2019, and then we kept teasing it. Pretty soon, people started joking that the new album didn’t really exist, so we went with it. We even made some merch that said, ‘The new album is a myth.’ We wiped all of our socials clean, and everybody went crazy.” He laughs. “That’s when we dropped the song ‘Playing God’ on them.”
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