TRIP HOP / ALTERNATIVE ELECTRO / HIP-HOP
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The music is largely defined for me by her vocal delivery: calm and collected, never shouting when a murmur will do. Lyrically though, she’s seething. She just keeps a lid on it.  It’s hard to single out any bit of wordplay here - it’s all impressive.

- Tony Stamp, RNZ

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PollyHill is a multi-hyphenate artist based out of Tāmaki Makaurau, NZ.

Starting as a vocalist in the hip-hop sphere and making a name for herself in the tāmaki underground, PollyHill has since become a unique and acclaimed music producer with a very specific cinematic ethereal sound. Spotify algorithms have labeled the sound as 'lo-fi alternative trip hop' and of late, a sound that genre-bends into the electro R&B minimalist world too. PollyHill has played some of NZ's biggest music festivals, as well as opening for underground NYC legend WIKI, and supporting Kae Tempest on their 2023 New Zealand tour.

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As a self-taught musician and producer, PollyHill works mostly electronically, through a combination of sampling and repurposings sounds, and using a range of synthesizers, beat pads, and digital audio workstations. Her latest project was a collaborative album AQUARIES made with Samara Alofa (released in 2023 to acclaim) and led to placement on international radio, as well as a string of successful shows at Port Noise Festival, Great Sounds Great Festival, Cuba Dupa, and a sold out release party in Auckland.

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Composition wise, her short film Gate Crash (which she wrote, directed, and scored) was selected for both NZ International Film Festival’s 'Best Short’ program, and Melbourne International Film Festival. In 2022 she scored Silo Theatre’s ‘The Writer’ to critical acclaim, and in 2020 she scored the dance work  ‘Faceless Hair Cry', which went on to win “Best Sound Design” at the 2020 Auckland Fringe festival.