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Shulamith by Polica
Shulamith is an album by Polica, released in 2013. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Chain My Name”, on 3 lists with a best position of #36.
Shulamith, Poliça's second album, came out on Mom + Pop Music on October 18, 2013, and it takes its name from the radical feminist Shulamith Firestone. Channy Leaneagh, the Minneapolis band's singer and lyricist, fell hard for Firestone's book The Dialectic of Sex once the recording was done, calling her a kind of personal pop star, though she insisted the title wasn't meant as a feminist statement.
The songs circle that ground anyway: the tug between desire and the frustration of chasing cultural ideals, the traps of materialism and perfectionism. Leaneagh's voice curls through cold, throbbing synth-pop, with Chris Bierden's bass rolling underneath. "Tiff" went out first as the lead single in April 2013, and "Chain My Name" also made the countdowns. A deluxe edition in June 2014 added four more tracks, among them the long-gigged "Raw Exit". United Crushers followed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Shulamith on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chain My Name | 3 | #36 | – | 2013–2025 | |
| 2 | Tiff | 2 | #72 | – | 2013–2018 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.