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Mar 4, 2016If United Crushers isn’t exactly optimistic, its vitality suggests that feeling friendless (“Fish On The Griddle”), cast aside (“Lose You”), or trapped on your sucky street corner (“Melting Block”) need not ruin your weekend.
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Mar 4, 2016If this really is Poliça’s “final paper” (as Leaneagh’s called it), then they’ve excelled themselves with the most intimate and empowering album of their career.
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Mar 3, 2016It all adds up to a record that bristles with mournfulness and melodious joy. Older, wiser, but far from jaded.
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Mar 3, 2016United Crushers is driven by the seemingly contradictory desires to bring things together and break them apart, but Poliça bring them into harmony with a gloves-off fearlessness, resulting in their most impassioned and immediate music yet.
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Mar 3, 2016Throughout, United Crushers teases with an array of complex stick-work and trickling synths. Everything suggests that Poliça have finally drawn straws and found something to stick with--and they definitely haven’t picked the shortest.
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Mar 2, 2016They've escaped the dirge and have now come up for air--and we're all the better for it.
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UncutFeb 24, 2016United Crushers establishes a more muscular sensibility for the American quartet. [Apr 2016, p.78]
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Mar 22, 2016For an album so drenched in sadness, there is a disco for the downhearted lurking beneath its surface.
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Mar 17, 2016It may not be as immediate as some of their earlier material, but it was a necessary endeavour for a band trying to make sense of the maelstrom of the modern world.
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Mar 10, 2016United Crushers can come across as a draining listen, perhaps even an uncomfortable one to those accustomed to their earlier work. It takes a few listens to discern the resolve in Leaneagh’s lyrics, but it’s there.
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Mar 10, 2016The result is more empty spaces, more silences, more sentimental melodics, but still a vibrant, quintessentially Poliça effort.
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Mar 2, 2016Despite its heavy subject matter, this record sparkles and whirrs in a way that is very easy to fall in love with.
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Feb 29, 2016This is awkward, sharp elbowed music that requires time and effort to fully appreciate, yet the complex textures and image-laden, thought provoking lyrics will gradually reveal themselves to those prepared to be patient.
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Mar 8, 2016Poliça is a group with too much collected talent for that; as in life these days, one only waits and hopes the clouds will clear.
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Mar 7, 2016Ultimately, like a hipper London Grammar, Poliça are too dreamy and refined for their own good.
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Q MagazineFeb 24, 2016Polica have made another good record, but there may never be a Polica album as good as the one inside your head. [Mar 2016, p.112]
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MojoFeb 24, 2016The overriding feeling, though, is that you want to give them a good shake, maybe get them a it drunk, try to liven them up. [Apr 2016, p.91]
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Mar 3, 2016For once, the darkness of Poliça’s shadows are too muddled to make the climb through them worthwhile.
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Feb 24, 2016More often than not, United Crushers settles into a groove and gets comfy.
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Mixed: 3 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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