Poliça – Polish for insurance policy – could count on quite some support earlier this year, with their excellent debut ‘Give You The Ghost’. They were hailed the band that you had to have seen at showcase festival SXSW in Texas and Jay-Z declared them his favourite indie-band of the moment. StuBru bombarded their single ‘Dark Star’ straight to hotshot and Radio 1 fell for them too.

Poliça hail from Minneapolis and hang around in the Gayngs collective that also houses members of Megafaun and Bon Iver. Eye-catcher of Poliça is the cool voice of singer Channy Leaneagh in combination with a sound that smells like 90ties pop and a whiff of R&B. De Standaard compares it to “the sensual art-pop of Joan As Police Woman and St.Vincent, the synth-propelled Americana-pop of Bon Iver, the ironic showbizz hip-hop of Kanye West, the urban ethereal sounds of The xx and the fierce post-punk rhythms of Warpaint.” Basically: “a mix of arty post-punk and R&B-ish melancholy that grabs you by the scruff of the neck, more than once”.

Their second album ‘Shulamith’ is to be released later this year, with that excellent single ‘Chain My Name’ as forerunner in the meantime.

Support-act Marijuana Deathsquads will appeal to the intoxicated imagination. One thing is for sure: there are at least two Poliça members residing in this semi-permanent collective. Sometimes also Justin Vernon and Matt Sweeney. Or not. As the band deliberately wants to keep things vague. Their debut ‘Oh My Sexy Lord’ will be released in early ’14 and googling the single ‘Ewok Sadness’ will instantly have you sold.