If you take the released single “Alive” alone as a benchmark, it seems as if Poliça have sent us down the wrong track. Because as powerful and polished as the band around singer Channy Leaneagh celebrates their very own Electronica-meets-R’n’B sound in the previously released opener, they then practice minimalism and deceleration as consistently.
Recorded with the help of a self-developed “anthropomorphic” production tool called “AllOvers(c)” (about whose human traits one can only speculate), MADNESS is a highly atmospheric record that encounters the abysses of a world gone awry with the means of shimmering beauty .
It is just as meditative as it is bittersweet when Leaneagh sings in the ambient title track beyond any auto-tune obfuscation with a bell-like voice into the wide open reverberation room and asks fundamental questions like “Do we even love at all?”, until finally the wistful sound a violin takes the main part of the song. Painfully beautiful!
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