Polica

Nothing jump-starts a new band’s career like a stellar pedigree, something Minneapolis’ Polica can surely attest to. With members from Roma Di Luna, Vampire Hands, Gayngs, and Bon Iver, the group quickly shot to prominence on the strength of a few scattered songs. Good thing the band’s debut album, Give You The Ghost, lives up to the hype: Polica plays it straight on new album, with a lean, tightly coiled sound that comes on like an atmospherically funky film score from a lost ’80s erotic thriller. With the bass and synth lines keeping the rhythm, the jazzy drumming sends the music off in unpredictable directions, giving songs like the raging “Violent Games” and shuffling “Form” an insatiable creep that slowly grows unsettling. 

Updated 04/24/2012