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Mar 2, 2020When We Stay Alive at times unintentionally underscores that struggle through its weakest moments, but it also embraces the perseverance required to come out on the other side with a renewed sense of self. Poliça sound eager to take that next major step and embrace a fresh start, even if they don't seem to know exactly where to go from here.
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Feb 4, 2020For a record born from a second chance at life, When We Stay Alive sounds disenchanted with its own message.
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UncutJan 27, 2020Revisits the kind of understated, politically slanted synth-pop that defined the Minnesota band's last two Trump-haunted albums. Nut Leaneagh also digs deeper on more hopeful, personal ruminations. [Mar 2020, p.35]
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Q MagazineJan 27, 2020At times, Leaneagh and Ryan Olson, her co-conspirator, glance off power-balladry, but when they ditch the linear, Poliça find their true form. [Mar 2020, p.119]
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Jan 27, 2020With none of the material really cutting through the production wizardry, this is another triumph for texture over songwriting.
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Nov 4, 2020super fresh! greatest mix of a vocalist & a producer ive heard in a long time
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Mar 22, 2020