The novelty of wearing sweatpants to work has worn off, and the news is an unrelenting firehose of discouraging bullshit, and screens are our rulers, and when do we get to feel the warmth of normal human connection again? But hey … at least there’s music. With Jools Holland, and more.They called it 2021, but it really felt like an extension of 2020, didn’t it? Everything feels like one big blob now, where things are bad and good and in between, and the lines that separate them are starting to blur.
United Crushers is the follow up to 2013’s Shulamith which EW described as being "propulsive enough for dance floors, and dreamy enough for headphones" and MOJO said that it "proves that intelligent pop music still has the ability to seduce and enthral." Their first, 2012's Give You The Ghost, also garnered international acclaim, with Rolling Stone hailing it as "the sound of heartbreak and celebration happening simultaneously" and Q praising it as "a bewitching, urgent, magical debut." The band has conquered massive festivals around the world from Coachella to Glastonbury in addition to performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Later. It is a weapon meant to empower the weak, the forgotten, and the disenfranchised. Even at its darkest, the record is musically the band's most upbeat and celebratory. The themes found and explored on United Crushers are political and personal, touching on social injustice, self-doubt and isolation, the urban decline and gentrification, overcoming music industry machinations, and finding true and honest love in the wake of it all.
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The band will play a series of shows in the lead up to the album release kicking off in Berlin on 11th Feb, with stops in London (Feb 15th Feb at Village Underground), followed by a full US tour (including SXSW).ġ1 February - Berlin, DE Berghain Kantine TICKETSġ5 February - London, UK Village Underground TICKETS Her incredible vocal range is on display throughout, beautifully raw and less electronically-affected than on previous recordings. There's a tighter groove to these songs and a more vulnerable quality to them, especially in Leaneagh's singing. The new album builds on POLIÇA’s signature synthesizer and percussion-heavy sounds with more complex arrangements and a bigger, more crisp hi-fi punch due to the new approach they took to writing and recording together, all in the same room. you see up higher but you’re never in style”. I’m speaking to myself mostly “never in the corner is the luck of life. It’s all observations on my mode of operation and how it affects where I go. Channy says of the single: "these lyrics are most diary like of any of the other songs on United Crushers. The first single from United Crushers, "Lime Habit," was premiered on Lauren Laverne’s BBC Radio 6 Music show. They recorded it at the renowned Sonic Ranch Studios in El Paso, TX, nestled just a few short miles from the US/Mexico border. The band, comprising Channy Leaneagh, dual drummers Drew Christopherson and Ben Ivascu, with Chris Beirden on bass and producer Ryan Olson at the helm, collectively wrote the album in Minneapolis in the winter of 2015 during their first true break from two years of touring. United Crushers (4th March 2016, Memphis Industries) is POLIÇA’s third full length release and most remarkable album to date.
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