From Minneapolis experimental pop band, on tour to support their new release “United Crushers” out March 4th.
Date/Time: Mar 30 2016, 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Vancouver, Imperial VancouverAge: 19+
Cost: $20.00
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United Crushers (out March 4, 2016) is POLIÇA’s third full-length release and most remarkable album to date. The band, which includes Channy Leaneagh, dual drummers, Drew Christopherson and Ben Ivascu and Chris Beirden on bass with producer Ryan Olson at the helm, collectively wrote the album in Minneapolis in the winter of 2015 during their first true break from two straight years of touring. The new album builds on POLIÇA’s signature synthesizer and percussion-heavy sounds with more complex arrangements and a bigger, crisper hi-fi punch due to the new approach they took to writing and recording: together, all in the same room. There's a tighter groove to these songs and a more vulnerable quality to them, especially in Leaneagh's singing. Her incredible vocal range is consistently on display throughout, beautifully raw and less electronically effected than on previous recordings.
United Crushers is the follow up to 2013’s Shulamith which EW called "propulsive enough for dance floors, and dreamy enough for headphones" andMOJO said "proves that intelligent pop music still has the ability to seduce and enthral." Their debut, 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 With Jools Holland and more.
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