United Crushers

Pitchfork 6.6/10 Poliça's United Crushers is a political record, but it's too exhausted to work as a protest album so much as an album for when all the protest's been sapped out.

A.V. Club B A mother can’t protect her children forever. Poliça frontwoman Channy Leaneagh knows this well, so she opens the excellent third album by her downcast Minneapolis synth-pop outfit by doing the next best thing: offering a warning.

The Line of Best Fit 8/10 Poliça's bold new record serves as a clarion call to all of us who are fighting bravely for the cause, be it art, love, or rebellion.

Evening Standard 4/5 The Minneapolis minimalist synthpop band don't shy away from darkness on their third album

DIY 4/5 Poliça have finally drawn straws and found something to stick with.

The Skinny 2/5 Nervy percussion, spare arrangements, Channy Leaneagh's vocals: Polica are as easily identifiable as ever, despite not being particularly distinguished.

Under The Radar 7.0/10 POLIÇA has never been one to paint pop music by numbers, and United Crushers is no exception. The follow-up to 2013's critically acclaimed Shulamith, it continues along its predecessor's path into the darkest electronic recesses of Channy Leaneagh's psyc

The Guardian 4/5 The Minneapolis band have ditched their brooding edge in favour of a more mature – and more exciting – sound that outstrips the current glut of mannered trip hop