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Poliça at the Imperial Theatre

Poliça at the Imperial Theatre, Vancouver, Mar. 30 2016. Kirk Chantraine photo.

Poliça at the Imperial Theatre, Vancouver, Mar. 30 2016. Kirk Chantraine photo.

Photos - Poliça at the Imperial Theatre, Vancouver, March 30 2016

– photos by Kirk Chantraine

Poliça near the end of their North American tour for their third album, Ultimate Crushers.

The Minneapolis band is comprised of Chris Bierden, Drew Christopherson, Ben Ivascu, and Channy Leaneagh.

According to thisispolica.com, “United Crushers was born out of the longest break from touring in POLIÇA’s history. The group originally emerged from Minneapolis in 2011 when Ryan Olson, GAYNGS leader, producer and Minneapolis’ master of curation, began collaborating with Leaneagh on a batch of synthesizer and percussion-heavy arrangements he had lying around. The resulting debut, 2012’s Give You The Ghost, immediately garnered international acclaim, with Rolling Stone hailing it as ‘the sound of heartbreak and celebration happening simultaneously’ and Q praising it as ‘a bewitching, urgent, magical debut.'”

The band released their follow-up, Shulamith, in the fall of 2013. EW called that album “propulsive enough for dance floors, and dreamy enough for headphones” and MOJO said it “proves that intelligent pop music still has the ability to seduce and enthrall.”

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Kirk Chantraine

About Kirk Chantraine

Kirk Chantraine is a Canadian photographer and software developer currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He graduated from Vancouver Film School for 3D Animation in 2004 and has been working in the Visual Effects industry ever since with companies such as Electronic Arts and Disney. Over the last few years Kirk has exhibited his photographic works in San Francisco and Vancouver. A music aficionado and vinyl junkie, Kirk shoots live music and performance at an inhuman pace across North America for The Snipe News , along with landscape and portraiture. If you're buying: gin-and-tonics. He is @kchantraine on Twitter.
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