POLIÇA Spring US Tour Starts Next Week. Also announces Summer Tour

To Play Lollapalooza, Osheaga, and Sasquatch Festivals

Starting next week the band will then hit the road for a string of May tour dates. Following their May dates, the band will then join Bon Iver for his UK tour. Upon returning stateside, they will perform at Sasaquatch Festival, followed by Osheaga and Lollapalooza and then a full August tour!

Tour Dates

05/08 – High Noon Salon – Madison, WI
05/09 – Turner Hall Ballroom – Milwaukee, WI
05/10 – Pike Room – Pontiac, MI
05/11 – German House – Rochester, NY
05/12 – Jillian’s – Albany, NY
05/13 – Maxwell’s – Hoboken, NJ
05/16 – Johnny Brendas – Philadelphia, PA
05/18 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA
05/19 – Bishop – Bloomington, IN
05/25 – Sasquatch Festival – Gorge, WA
06/02 – Soundcheck Festival – Austin, TX
06/23 – River’s Edge Festival – St. Paul, MN
08/03 – Osheaga – Montreal, QC
08/05 – Lollapalooza – Chicago, IL
08/16 – The Biltmore – Vancouver, BC
08/17 – Nuemos – Seattle, WA
08/18 – The Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
08/20 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
08/21 – Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
08/23 – The Pool @ Cosmopolitan – Las Vegas, NV
08/25 – The Blue Bird Theater – Denver, CO

Minneapolis continues its golden run of producing quality talent with the first project to arrive out the Gayngs collective, the super slick electronic pop-soul outfit Poliça. Fronted by ice cool vocalist Channy Leanagh who sang with Gayngs, produced by Ryan Olson and featuring Mike Noyce from Bon Iver, it’s a who’s who of the current Twin Cities scene.

After collaborating in the studio and live with Gayngs in 2010, it became apparent that Channy and Ryan should form a group of their own. “As touring progressed and Channy got more comfortable with the band and singing the songs, she would reinvent the parts she was doing in brilliant ways. It made me want to see where else she could go” explains Olson.Ryan’s pop sensibilities and electronic adventurism would prove to be the perfect vehicle for Channy’s recent growth and evolution as a vocalist and dynamic experimentalist. In June 2011, they began writing together what would become Poliça’s debut album, Give You The Ghost.

Born out of the break-up of a recent relationship, the majority of Give You The Ghost reflects the difficulty of facing up to your mistakes and making peace with them; an exorcism via exciting new musical possibilities. “The recurring theme of this record is ‘what in the hell just happened and who in the hell am I anyways’” says Channy. This redemptive mood is key for the track ‘Dark Star’, released online late last year amidst a viral whirlwind. Backed by smooth brass breakdowns throughout and mid-tempo loping rhythms, it’s typical of Poliça’s often meditative content fused with the addictive refrain “Ain’t a man who can pull me down from my Dark Star”.

First sashaying single proper ‘Lay Your Cards Out’ and the dreamy ‘Wandering Star’ both feature Mike Noyce of Bon Iver on vocals and are equally as deliciously funk laden as they are hypnotic, with more ratatat drums from Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson, propelling the lush arrangements and slinky bass, provided by Chris Bierden.