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Entertainment WeeklyOct 18, 2013It's propulsive enough for dance floors, and dreamy enough for headphones. [25 Oct/1 Nov 2013, p.100]
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Oct 22, 2013Despite its success, Give You The Ghost only hinted at what Poliça can do. Shulamith is a wilder, looser ride, both more experimental and more fully realized.
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MojoNov 25, 2013Shulamith proves that intelligent pop music still has the ability to seduce and enthrall. [Dec 2013, p.86]
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Nov 4, 2013Poliça may have more to offer, especially if they can branch out from a blueprint that they rightly feel very comfortable with, but for the time being Shulasmith is a finely executed and thematically and emotionally rich record.
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Oct 24, 2013As Shulamith Firestone likely highlighted for Leaneagh, feminism can be vehemently expressed, but Poliça, through art and music, makes that expression charming and danceable.
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Oct 21, 2013Even if Shulamith isn't as strikingly original as Give You the Ghost, the growth in its songwriting and emotional complexity suggests Poliça are in it for the long haul.
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Oct 21, 2013With Shulamith, Poliça have managed to create one of the most confident and assertive albums of the year.
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Oct 21, 2013Shulamith provides exactly what you want from a second Poliça album; it’s incredibly fresh and exciting, but still a reminder of what you loved so much the first time round.
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Oct 15, 2013It feels darker, somehow, deliciously shadowey.
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Nov 15, 2013Shulamith, in this way, demonstrates again Poliça’s greatest strength: making music that’s both an easy and a torturous listen.
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Oct 23, 2013They never fully submerge themselves into new territory with this album, which becomes both the band’s main strength and weakness.
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Nov 15, 2013Shulamith is by all means not a bad album, providing just enough thrills and spills to warrant repeated plays. But by expanding and deepening their sound palette, Poliça lose out on some of the original charm that helped make them unique.
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Oct 21, 2013Overall, Shulamith is a record that takes on serious issues but always feels engagingly personal, with ideas set to the kind of alt.pop melodies you couldn’t forget even if you wanted to.
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Oct 17, 2013There are plenty of strengths to Shulamith, not least that it chiefly shares its blueprints with its spellbinding debut. But in expanding its horizons, it dents the assured sense of identity which made Give You the Ghost so utterly enrapturing, and reverses the dichotomy of maximalist-emotion alongside minimalist-music.
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Oct 17, 2013Shulamith is a much more cohesive and self-assured effort [than its debut].
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UncutOct 15, 2013There are still missteps--the ungainly "Chain My Name" and "Spilling Lines"--but between these sit a brace of casually innovative slow jams. [Nov 2013, p.76]
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Under The RadarOct 15, 2013The work is consistently compelling but dense. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.93]
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Oct 23, 2013Poliça flirt with greatness often enough to make Shulamith more than worth your time, but it’s not as brave as we’d like it to be.
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Q MagazineNov 25, 2013For Polica, chilling out means going way below zero, resulting in an icy glitter that is seductive but ultimately freezes you out. [Dec 2013, p.112]
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Nov 18, 2013On their second album, the followup to 2012's buzzy Give You the Ghost, these kids blend distant, white-on-white melodic minimalism with early-Prince electro burp-'n-grind.
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Oct 21, 2013Shulamith can still be considered a worthy addition to the band’s back catalogue, even it just doesn’t quite reach the heights of their excellent debut.
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Oct 21, 2013Low-slung, dub-ish beats are appealing, though lead some tracks to Snooze Town.
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Oct 21, 2013If there is a fault, it's that too little lodges in the memory, Spilling Lines and opener Chain My Name aside. Still, this is another assured and immersive album.
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Oct 18, 2013If only Leaneagh's vocals weren't so mutated with effects that render some of her more poignant lyrics indistinguishable, Shulamith's impact might be all the greater. Nevertheless, it's a beautifully melancholic record.
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Oct 15, 2013A fine sound indeed, but one that could have been better with a shade more variety injected into proceedings.
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Oct 15, 2013Shulamith picks up pretty much where that album left off, mixing elements of yacht rock, soul, hip hop and dub into a smoothly melancholic whole--but at times Leaneagh’s vocodered emoting makes you wonder if this isn’t just Dido for the blognoscenti.
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