POLIÇA, the Minneapolis-based electronic quintet alongside European orchestral collective s t a r g a z e announced this past November that they were teaming up for a new collaborative album. The collaborative album will be entitled Music For The Long Emergency and is revealed to come out February 16th. The collaboration started with their first track “How Is This Happening,” a ten-minute track written right after Trump’s election and released on its one-year anniversary
The collaboration continues with a new and shorter track called “Agree.” The three-minute song may be shorter, but it holds a deeper kick to it. The song, which according to a recent press release is about “those contradictions of life,” opens up with an orchestral arrangement that pulls listeners in, and as the song hits the 30-second mark, fans can’t help but continue forward. “Agree” is filled with haunting musical notes as well as deep such as “Being good to you, but losing me.”
Channy Leaneagh, POLIÇA frontwoman told Billboard regarding the track:
“In this long emergency of being human without a clue, we fall prey to the loudest, most powerful voices, and romantic love seems old-fashioned and usually oppressive. However, we still fall in love again and again. When I got married a second time, I understood I have more philosophy than true conversion; I’m a religious anarchist but I haven’t been born again, so to speak.
But when I see it amongst my smartest, most radical friends and heroes, it’s more confusing; they too get married or enter monogamous relationships. It makes no sense when you discuss the historical evidence or just our own experiences with love, but then we don’t often act in evidence and learn from the past. That’s the place ‘Agree’ was made from. We don’t believe in it but we want it all the same.”
Music For The Long Emergency is set to come out on February 16th via Totally Gross National Product/Transgressive. Fans can pre-order the collaborative album through the POLIÇA official website.
POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e will bring their collaboration on the road starting next year. Scroll down below for a date near you and to purchase tickets, fans can click here.
Listen to “Agree” below.
Tour dates:
2/15 – North Adams, MA @ MASS MoCA
2/17 – New York, NY @ Symphony Space at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
2/18 – Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace *
2/19 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall *
2/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
2/22 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
2/23 – Cincinnati, OH @ Contemporary Arts Center
2/27 – London, UK @ Oval Space
3/1 – Rotterdam, NL @ Cross-Linx Festival
3/2 – Amsterdam, NL @ Cross-Linx Festival
3/3 – Eindhoven, NL @ Cross-Linx Festival
3/4 – Enschede, NL @ Cross-Linx Festival
* solo POLIÇA show
Photo credit by Raymond Flotat
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