.thisispolica's Channy Leaneagh discusses letting therapy shape her music, recording from a makeshift studio in her bedroom & more
Channy Leaneagh of Polica performs on stage at Belgrave Music Hall on Aug. 16, 2014 in Leeds.
When it came to music, though, the fall wasn’t so much a set-back as an opportunity to finish the album she’d semi-abandoned. In 2011 when Leaneagh and producer Ryan Olson formed Poliça to make use of R&B and hip hop-inspired compositions that didn’t quite fit their Midwest softrock group Gaygns , the music industry was a little different. Viral hits still had a limited shelf life, and it was far more lucrative to be consistent than it was to rely on having a single blow up online.
The big thing the accident gave me was time. I couldn’t work, clean, take care of my children or even leave the house, I just had to be inside all day with my own mind. So I thought, “Well, now I have some time,” so I started writing again. It’s not like the rest of the album is about the accident, it just made it so I had the ability to do it.
Alex Proctor, who contributed to the song “Little Threads,” set up a makeshift studio in your bedroom so that you could record while you were recovering from the accident. Did any of the music you made during this period make it onto the-type situation, I could actually stand, I wasn’t recording from my bed. “Be Again” has this quality to it where I’m kind of gasping for air. It was one of the first songs I recorded after the accident in the studio that Alex made for me.
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