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  • Summary: The latest full-length release for Minneapolis band Poliça features the use of producer Ryan Olson and Seth Rosetter's "anthropomorphic production tool" AllOvers(c).
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  1. Uncut
    Jun 1, 2022
    80
    The album is a deeply textural listen, led by Leaneagh’s impressive voice. [Jul 2022, p.31]
  2. Jun 8, 2022
    80
    Succinct. ... While Madness begins in a state of chaos, it reaches an uneasy resolution over its half-hour runtime, exploring some emotionally resonant territory along the way.
  3. Jun 8, 2022
    80
    On Madness as a whole, Poliça were evolving even when the world seemed to come to a standstill.
  4. Jun 6, 2022
    65
    Poliça now appear in search of a middle ground that combines their visceral songwriting with Madness’ inventive textures. At their best, these songs offer hints of that forward trajectory.
  5. Across 31 minutes and just seven songs, Poliça are impeccably focused on ‘Madness’, packaging up their first decade as a band into a neatly formed, bite-sized package.
  6. Jun 1, 2022
    60
    A perfectly paced album, but despite the elegant sequencing, there are definitely tracks you’ll come back to far more than others.
  7. Mojo
    Jun 1, 2022
    60
    The follow-up to 2020's When We Stay Alive continues that LP's fragile introspection. [Jul 2022, p.97]

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