Music for the Long Emergency

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AlbumFeb 16 / 20187 songs, 38m 6s
Art Pop Chamber Pop
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5.2 / 10

The Minneapolis synth-pop band teams up with a Berlin-based orchestra in an attempt to reckon with the trials of our time.

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Car Seat Headrest reimagines 2011’s fiery Twin Fantasy with a bigger budget, while Poliça and Stargaze turn in the stirring Music For The Long Emergency, and Brandi Carlile finds strength in forgiveness on the lovely, languid By The Way, I Forgive You. These, plus Superchunk, Ought, and more in this week’s notable…

8 / 10

Music for the Long Emergency perfectly encapsulates the confusion and anxiety haemorrhaging from our society on both a personal and political level.

Poliça are suddenly sounding much more languid than we’ve heard them before.

Poliça began working on Music for the Long Emergency just before the release of 2016's politically charged United Crushers, and they give the issues they explored on that album extra depth and heft with the help of Berlin's orchestral collective s t a r g a z e.

POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e’s collaborative album Music For The Long Emergency has some interesting elements but is ultimately underwhelming.

7.5 / 10

"How is this happening?/How is this happening?/I can't breathe/I can't see," sings POLIÇA vocalist Channy Leaneagh on "How Is This Happening," the 10-minute-long lead single off the Minneapolis-based band's collaboration with s t a r g a z e.

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'Music For The Long Emergency' is the collaborative album from Minneapolis quintet Poliça and the Berlin chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e - it's a union that flourishes.

6 / 10

Gentle pizzicato strings pluck at the far ends of the stereo field.

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Poliça and s t a r g a z e encapsulate what it means to be human in times of global distress.

Album Reviews: Poliça and s t a r g a z e - Music For The Long Emergency

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Polica / s t a r g a z e - Music For The Long Emergency review: The orchestrated triumph of a seemingly impossible union

European orchestral collective Stargaze arrived in the US on November 9 last year to continue work on a cross-Atlantic collaboration with Minneapolis band Poliça.