POLIÇA’S “WEDDING” FROM THE ALBUM UNITED CRUSHERS OUT NOW
Mom + Pop Music
““Wedding” is about the marriage between the militarization of police in America and the drug trade. How they feed off of each other and get fat and powerful at the expense of all of us. It is a serious song, but I hope it moves you to hope all the same.” ~Channy Leaneagh
About United Crushers:
If the opening moments of Poliça’s new album, United Crushers, leave you feeling unsettled, then Channy Leaneagh has done her job. With her voice pitch-shifted down into an ominous, nearly unrecognizable register, she sings of a post-industrial urban landscape littered with broken promises, a land of poverty and violence that’s been rigged against us from the start. Despite all that, though, there is an element of defiance, a refusal to surrender in her delivery of the lyrics. Halfway through that first track, “Summer Please,” when her gorgeous true singing voice enters on top of that deep and disturbing baritone, there is a moment of hope and transcendence, and it’s the key to unlocking United Crushers, Poliça’s third full-length release and most remarkable album yet. Even at its darkest, the record is musically the band’s most upbeat and celebratory. It is a weapon meant to empower the weak and the forgotten and the disenfranchised, it’s very creation an act of rebellion in the face of the hopelessness that casts such a long shadow over middle America’s slow urban decline.
There is a darkness to United Crushers, but it doesn’t win. Dreams may be dashed and promises may be broken, the world may be full of disappointment and pain and violence, but if you’re in the midst of it all feeling lost and hopeless on the streets of Minneapolis, there’s a United Crushers tag that knows how you feel. All you have to do is look up.
Tour Dates:
03/22/16 – Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom*
03/23/16 – San Diego, CA – The Irenic*
03/25/16 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre*
03/26/16 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore*
03/28/16 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge*
03/29/16 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge*
03/30/16 – Vancouver, BC – The Imperial*
03/31/16 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre*
04/14/16 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon#
04/15/16 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom#
04/16/16 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall#
04/18/16 – Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig#
04/20/16 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace#
04/21/16 – Montreal, QC – Petit Campus#
04/22/16 – Allston, MA -Brighton Music Hall#
04/23/16 – New York, NY – Warsaw#
04/25/16 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer#
04/26/16 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club#
04/28/16 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle#
04/29/16 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West#
04/30/16 – Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge#
05/01/16 – Asheville, NC – The Mothlight#
05/04/16 – Covington, KY – Madison Live#
05/05/16 – Columbus, OH – The Basement#
05/06/16 – Columbia, MO – Rose Music Hall#
05/07/16 – Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck#
#w/ MOTHXR
*w/ Clara-Nova
Poliça
United Crushers
(Mom + Pop Music)
Release Date: March 4, 2016
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United Crushers Track Listing:
1. Summer Please
2. Lime Habit
3. Someway
4. Wedding
5. Melting Block
6. Top Coat
7. Lately
7. Fish
8. Berlin
9. Baby Sucks
11. Kind
12. Lose You
Artist Links:
SPILL NEW MUSIC: LUCIUS RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM ‘SECOND NATURE’ OUT APRIL 8 ON DINE ALONE RECORDS | FIRST SINGLE “NEXT TO NORMAL” OUT NOW
SPILL NEW MUSIC: ALICE MERTON SHARES “FUNNY BUSINESS” (ACOUSTIC) ON AMAZON MUSIC | ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES W/ YOUNG THE GIANT + FITZ & THE TANTRUMS | ‘MINT’ LP OUT NOW
SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: ALICE MERTON – MINT
SPILL NEW MUSIC: ALICE MERTON SHARES “FUNNY BUSINESS” VIDEO | EUROPEAN TOUR STARTS IN MARCH | ‘MINT’ OUT JANUARY 18
