POLIÇA are set to release their third full length United Crushers, recorded at the renowned Sonic Ranch Studios in El Paso, Texas, on the 4th March 2016 via Memphis Industries. 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.
The first single from United Crushers, ‘Lime Habit’, was premiered on Lauren Laverne’s BBC Radio 6 Music show. Channy says of the single, ‘these lyrics are most diary like of any of the other songs on United Crushers. It’s all observations on my mode of operation and how it affects where I go. I’m speaking to myself mostly; “never in the corner is the luck of life… so get out of the corner and… you see up higher but you’re never in style’.
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. 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 on display throughout, beautifully raw and less electronically-affected than on previous recordings.
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. Even at its darkest, the record is musically the band’s most upbeat and celebratory. It is a weapon meant to empower the weak, the forgotten, and the disenfranchised.
Track list:
01. Summer Please
02. Lime Habit
03. Someway
04. Wedding
05. Melting Block
06. Top Coat
07. Lately
08. Fish
09. Berlin
10. Baby Sucks
11. Kind
12. Lose You
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).
POLIÇA 2016 EU Tour Dates:
11 February – Berlin, DE Berghain Kantine
15 February – London, UK Village Underground
