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- Summary: This is the debut full-length collaboration between Minneapolis electro-pop band Poliça and the Berlin-based orchestra collective Stargaze.
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- Record Label: Transgressive
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Feb 16, 2018There’s a strange but rewarding matching of talents that takes place on Music For The Long Emergency.
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Feb 16, 2018As protest music goes, it is not particularly uplifting. Yet despair is kept at bay by the sheer majesty of the lush, dense, beautifully sculpted, wonderfully alien sound.
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Feb 16, 2018Poliça have broken new ground and consolidated old strengths with this laudable step outside of their comfort zone.
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UncutFeb 22, 2018Icily brilliant. [Mar 2018, p.32]
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Feb 21, 2018Whatever looming shadow might darken your homeland, Music for the Long Emergency offers a substantive retreat, with enough room for minds to rest and wander in peace.
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Apr 24, 2018Recorded with Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, their sound is simultaneously laid bare and enriched by its cinematic qualities.
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Feb 16, 2018The resulting sound feels new, to be sure, but mostly in the sense that it’s not fully ripe. Though challenging and, in its best moments, quite exciting, Music for the Long Emergency ultimately resembles a first draft. Its most compelling ideas are knotted up with its worst, and the whole thing could use a thorough edit.
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