Shulamith

While Give You The Ghost was a mostly subdued and meditative album, its songs living in a sort of natural constraint, the band's follow-up, Shulamith, is hyper and edgy, driven by a manic tension that pushes both Poliça's physical and synthetic spheres into new realms.

Even before the album's release, the striking cover image and two videos of tangled meanings began making the argument that Shulamith is the work of a band untethered from its past, weaving a sense of conflict into the core of its songs.

Despite its success, Give You The Ghost only hinted at what Poliça can do. Shulamith is a wilder, looser ride, both more experimental and more fully realized.