From the bucolic drift of 2019's 'Flora', or the jagged fever- dream jazz of 'Chaos Blooms' Stephen Buckley's Polypores project has never ceased to innovate, weaving intricate textures and motifs into effortlessly anxiolytic electronic music for some of the most respected labels in the electronic music sphere including (but not limited to) Castles In Space, Behind The Sky, Aural Canyon, DiN and Frequency Domain.

It’s not just via recorded medium that we get an insight into the Polypores mercurial world though, with his live performances ranging from highly textural modular synth tapestries, slowly unfurling into threads of sound (and cleverly woven back together again), through to pounding psychedelic freak-outs with hypnotic polyrhythms and fuzzed-up drum machines.

Myriad influences shine through in his recorded work, the intricately weaved insectoid sound-worlds of “Multizonal Mindscramble” contrasting the lysergic drift and new-age glide of 'There Are Other Worlds' or the subterranean, simmering wooze of ‘Shpongos’. While there is undeniable beauty in his more unhurried compositions, it's the effortless flow between sound worlds that makes the Polypores sound such an identifiable sonic presence. Every album provides another layer of influence, and each additional layer feeds back into the ecosystem, providing a self-sustaining, endlessly rewarding listen.