The 20 year old me who stupidly loathed Betty Boo would have really hated this.
He would have been very wrong.
Recorded in just two weeks and written instinctively following the demise of Channy's marriage, Poliça's debut album Give You The Ghost is a sometimes violent near-celebration of the end of something monumental, all wrapped up in guazy, claustrophobic post-rock R&B. It's not hugely surprising that the lyric Channy couldn't get out of her head when writing the album was "don't fuck with me, don't fuck with me" from Jai Paul's BTSTU; that track's similar mix of fragility and aggression is at the core of Poliça songs Form and the crushing Happy Be Fine.
I've listened to the Poliça album more than any other this year.
It is fantastic.
So I'm crashing at a mate's and someone has just started having sex in the flat. Thing is, everyone that lives here is in the living room
— Dave Cribb (@davecribb) October 20, 2012
In the early hours of Saturday morning, this tweet marked the start of an engrossing story.
I've been playing The Haunted Man all week.
One of the albums of the year.
Every now and then, I like to remind myself that this happened.