Minneapolis-based band POLIÇA announces news of their sixth album Dreams Go, due out October 17 via Memphis Industries. POLIÇA delivers their most emotionally resonant and texturally rich work to date—a poignant meditation on loss, resilience, and the fragile beauty of holding on. Written and recorded in the shadow of bassist Chris Bierden’s glioblastoma diagnosis, the album is both elegy and act of preservation, capturing the band at a moment of profound transition.
To accompany the announcement they share the album title track. Commenting on the track Channy Leaneagh says, “It’s an anthem for the dreams we swallow, bury away while life goes on without them.”
Since their emergence from Minneapolis’ vibrant underground in 2011, POLIÇA has carved out a singular space in electronic indie-pop, blending shadowy synths, pulsating rhythms, and the unmistakable vocal presence of Channy Leaneagh—a voice that bends and refracts like light through water, shaped by intricate processing yet deeply human at its core. Co-founded by producer Ryan Olson, the band’s alchemy has long been defined by its balance of warmth and detachment, with Chris Bierden’s melodic bass lines and the dueling drums of Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson anchoring their hypnotic sound.
Their upcoming LP, Dreams Go, is a collection of eight new songs recorded at Pachyderm Studio in Minnesota, marking the band’s final sessions with Bierden before he lost the ability to play bass. The record pulses with a raw, elegiac energy, a testament to the chemistry that defined POLIÇA’s first decade.
While Bierden can no longer perform live, POLIÇA presses forward with a new addition of Alex Nutter, reimagining themselves once more with a new touring lineup. Produced by Olson and featuring guest production by Stockholm-based techno producer Peder Mannerfelt, Dreams Go doesn’t just memorialize the past—it propels the band into the next phase of their evolution, proving that reinvention has always been part of their DNA.
Though born of grief, Dreams Go is anything but static. It breathes, shimmers, and ultimately insists on the power of making art in the face of uncertainty. Whether or not POLIÇA continues beyond this release, Dreams Go stands as a moving testament to the band’s creative bond—and to Bierden’s indelible role within it.
Dreams Go:
- Carlines
- Wound Up
- Revival
- Creeping
- Wasted Me
- Li5a
- She Knows Me
- Dreams Go
