Poliça
Founded: 2011
Location: United States
Poliça (often stylised in all caps) is an American pop band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 2011. The band consists of Channy Leaneagh (vocals, synth), Chris Bierden (bass), Drew Christopherson (drums) and Ben Ivascu (drums), with Ryan Olson joining the band in a studio context as its producer.To date, the band has released six studio albums, Give You the Ghost (2012), Shulamith (2013), and United Crushers (2016) through Mom + Pop Music; Music For the Long Emergency (2018) through Transgressive; When We Stay Alive (2020) and Madness (2022) through Memphis Industries. They also tour internationally.
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Live Review: Polica, Jaala
"Polica's music is hypnotic, thought-provoking and deep; our minds wander, but that doesn't mean we're not enthralled by the sounds."
Make What You Want To Make - Backlash Be Damned
"We don't wanna be fettered by commercial expectations. We just wanna say what we have to say and kinda let it be at that."
Poliça To Play Vivid LIVE Sideshow In Melbourne
The US synth-poppers will be showing off new album 'United Crushers'
Album Review: Poliça - United Crushers
"Maybe it's the political climate or something more personal, but Polica's third album finds the band in dismal twilight territory."
Album Review: Polica - Shulamith
In 2012, Poliça gave us ...The Ghost, a chillingly effective debut. In 2013, they’ve given us something of a missed opportunity.
Live Review: Poliça & Polographia
Closer, Fist, Teeth, Money, was undoubtedly the highlight as the quartet pushed themselves to the brink of a sonic mess filled with loose rhythms and screaming synths
Cop That
“The purpose is not to make the voice more in tune,” Leaneagh reveals, “it sort of distorts it in a certain way that kind of smoothens it out into an instrument, more than just a vocal performance.”
Album Review: Poliça - Give You The Ghost
Poliça have proven themselves as inimitably listenable, a multi-layered experiment that knows and understands what it means to be making pop music.
Album Review: Poliça - Give You The Ghost
The record is predominantly driven by heady rhythms, which contributes to much of the trip hop essence and the marvelous percussive trickery scattered throughout the record.
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