★★★★★
November 18, 2013
On some level, Poliça - led by singer Channy Leaneagh and producer Ryan Olson - couldn't sound more like they were from Minneapolis. On their second album, the followup to 2012's buzzy Give You the Ghost, these kids blend distant, white-on-white melodic minimalism with early-Prince electro burp-'n-grind...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-11-19
★★★★★
There are two covers to Poliça's Shulamith floating around. The first is a pixelated smudge, a silhouette like a blocky comma, elegant in a way but subtly disturbing. The second, in high-resolution, reveals the image for what it is: a woman, back turned, skin bare and hair slick with fresh blood, defiant or defeated. It's unsettling no matter which you look at first, and intentional or not, it's eerily reminiscent of what made Give You the Ghost one of 2012's most unexpectedly complex debuts...
- pitchfork.com
2013-11-13
★★★★★
Poliça's debut album Give You The Ghost languished in my 'listen later' folder, (one that doesn't get checked on as much as it ought to), until one crystal-clear morning in early summer a chance encounter with the shuffle button threw-up the song 'Form', and I found myself hooked. Pity that Shulamith happens to come out in autumn, just as the nights are drawing in. Against this backdrop Poliça sound almost too much at home...
- thequietus.com
2013-11-14
★★★★★
Minneapolis' Poliça are back for a second round of sexual politics and they still mean business. The anger and bitterness of last year's Give You The Ghost has spilled over into full-blown violence on follow-up album, Shulamith. Its cover art is a Psycho-like bloodbath, while an unnerving promo clip for lead single Tiff gives new meaning to the term 'self-harm'...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-11-04
★★★★★
About twenty seconds into album opener "Chain my name" Poliça's second full-length release finds its groove. For the remainder of that track and for its eleven subsequent songs Shulamith rarely strays from the fine mixture of Channy Leanneagh's languid vocals, glossy, pushy synths and latent, trip-hop inspired percussion...
- www.adequacy.net
2013-11-04
★★★★★
Tweet Surrender to Poliça Straight out of the great state that gave us the genius of The Replacements comes the R&B techno band Poliça, further proving that Minneapolis is the place to be if you want to start an awesome band. Founded in 2011 by Channy Leaneagh as a creative outlet after a bad divorce, Poliça also consists of core member Ryan Olson; the band name is a reference to the duo's unwritten work ethic...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-10-29
★★★★★
This Minneapolis band's second album is an impressive set of dark, R&B-tinged electro-pop with a densely produced sound featuring eerie, unsettling synths, stark, echoing drums, trip-hop rhythms and Channy Leaneagh's icy, processed vocals. 10/25/2013
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- kexp.org
2013-10-26
★★★★★
Photo: Shulamith is the second album from Polica following the release of their stunning debut Give You The Ghost lin 2013, an arresting record that put them on the map with their unique and melancholic electro-pop sound.
Give You The Ghost demonstrated Polica's artful and atmospheric sound with their distinctive drum, bass, synth combination, thickly coated with singer Channy Leaneagh's digitized vocals, leaving the overall result to expel a compelling and haunting effect...
- www.gigwise.com
2013-10-25
★★★★★
Author of influential and criticized text The Dialect of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution , radical Canadian feminist Shulamith Firestone was a founding member of various prominent feminist groups, including New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists. Perhaps moved by Firestone's recent death in 2012, Channy Leaneagh has devoted her band Poliça' s second studio album, Shulamith , to conveying a message of feminism reminiscent of that of Firestone's...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-10-25
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