Watch The Video “I Need $” Here!
Following on from their recent album Shulamith, the follow up to last year’s Give You the Ghost, POLIÇA are all set to release new single I Need $ on 3rd March 2014.
I Need $ (spoken as I Need Money) is Shulamith’s most R&B / pop inflected track and contains the lyric that, according to vocalist and songwriter Channy Leaneagh, best sums up the themes of the record: “Chasing and wasting for our own desires, we love what we need until the need grows tired”.
The transfixing video for I Need $ premiered today on The Guardianand echoes these themes, starring Channy as a daydreaming motel chambermaid. It segues into a coda of album closer So Leave, an inclusion on which director Isaac Ravishankara notes: “Having “So Leave” in the video felt as natural as a continuation of the story as it does musically on the album.”
POLIÇA are heading to the UK in February for a string of shows including their biggest headline performance at London’s The Troxy, which is close to selling out.
Watch POLIÇA Perform “Spilling Lines” On Jimmy Kimmel Live!
UK Tour
Feb 06 – O2 Academy – Bristol
Feb 07 – Arches – Glasgow
Feb 08 – The Ritz – Manchester
Feb 10 – All Saint’s Church – Brighton SOLD OUT
Feb 12 – The Troxy – London
Press Quotes
“‘Shulamith’ is nearly perfect”–NPR
“Poliça rein in the sprawl of their debut, bringing out higher highs, lower lows, clearer hooks” –Pitchfork
“America’s Portishead” –Rolling Stone
“Its music opens up wide spaces to expose tidings of desire, separation, longing, bitterness and resolve: breakup songs that absolve no one.” — The New York Times
“Your sexy bedroom electronica soundtrack has arrived, courtesy of indie pop band Polica” –Entertainment Weekly
“Shulamith is a heavy, mesmeric album — one that can make gorgeous background music if that’s all you want from it, but one that also reveals big emotional power when you listen closer.” – Stereogum
“A beautifully melancholic record” –The Guardian [UK]
“Overall, 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.” – NME [UK]
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