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Poliça - Very Cruel (track reviews)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBdMWAULRbo
"starts life with an erupting, squelching sawtooth"
http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/albums/polica-shulamith/
"Leaneagh puts on her best Beth Gibbons"
http://prettymuchamazing.com/reviews/polica-shulamith
"the album's most intense and mesmerizing track"
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/228815021.html
"gritty synth-rock"
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/10/review-polica---shulamith.html
"What is one minute the feeling of a handful of bedsheets is quickly replaced by the clammy palms of a fistful of barbed wire"
http://projectpoppycock.com/review-polica-releases-shulamith-on-tour-this-fall/
"...create something sensational. The beginning of “Very Cruel”, with layers building up on each other to a fantastic crescendo, demonstrates this perfectly."
http://thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/polica-shulamith-139769
"where anger and pain is clearly audible and ramped up by frantic and harsh synths"
http://www.gigwise.com/reviews/85424/polica---shulamith-memphis-industries
"a menacing collage of squelchy bass-lines and wailing sirens bizarrely inspired by the late acoustic songstress Eva Cassidy"
http://mimo.recordingconnection.com/polica-shulamith-album-review/966700/
"the ominous"
http://www.thegizzlereview.com/2013/10/polica-shulamith.html
"gritty and haunting"
http://blushingpanda.org/blog/2013/10/16/polica-shulamith-review/
"goes all Bjork with big bass beats and big synth sounds - a definite highlight"
http://music.thedigitalfix.com/content/19686/polica-capsule-review.html
"darkly seductive vibe"
http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/shulamith-mr0004023280
"sinister, shadowy digital menace burbles like Portishead inhabiting a deserted fairground"
http://www.northerntransmissions.com/album-review/review-shulamith-by-polica/
"Album highlight, “Very Cruel,” has the emotionally haunting vocals of Channy Leaneagh weaving their way through the dirty synth/bass beat"
http://www.theowlmag.com/album-reviews/shulamith-by-polica/
"the cloying menace"
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17916/reviews/4147017
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"The only mis-step is ‘Very Cruel’..."
http://www.nme.com/reviews/polica/14875