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It's been just over a year since our initial mention of I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling, ethereal disco artist Kelley Polar's follow-up to 2005's Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens. Way back when, the disc had no name, no release date, hardly anything but the ability to cause strong pangs of anticipation in its potential listeners. It still has that, of course, but now it has all those fun details too.

Polar's I Need You to Hold On is due March 4 on Environ, the label owned by frequent Polar collaborator and Falling mixer Morgan Geist. Rhapsody and iTunes users can scoop it up right now, though.

Meanwhile, a tour featuring Polar's new live band is expected to follow sometime this year, and Polar himself will be at Brooklyn's Studio B tomorrow night (March 1) for an Environ label "Bar Mitzvah", along with DJ sets from Metro Area, Dan Selzer, and Junior Boy Jeremy Greenspan.

In other Kelley Polar news, he got his hands on Caribou's "She's the One", remixing the track for a recent single.

I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling:

01 A Feeling of the All-Thing
02 Zeno of Elea
03 Entropy Reigns (In the Celestial City)
04 Chrysanthemum
05 Rosenband
06 Satellites
07 A Dream in Three Parts (On Themes by Enesco)
08 We Live in an Expanding Universe
09 Sea of Sine Waves
10 Thurston and Grisha
11 In Paradisum