Poliça – Polish for insurance policy – could count on quite some support for their excellent debut ‘Give You The Ghost’ earlier this year. They were hailed as the band to be seen at Texan showcase festival SXSW and Jay-Z named them as his favourite indie band of the moment. StuBru immediately bombarded their single ‘Dark Star’ to hotshot and Radio 1 surrendered too.

Poliça hails from Minneapolis and hangs around in the Gayngs collective that also houses members of Megafaun and Bon Iver. Poliça's aural eye-catcher is the supercool voice of singer Channy Leaneagh combined with a sound that smells like 90ties pop with a whiff of R&B. De Standaard compares it with “the sensual art-pop of Joan As Police Woman and St.Vincent, the synth-driven americana-pop of Bon Iver, the ironic showbizz hip-hop of Kanye West, the heavenly urban sounds of The xx and the fierce post-punk rhythms of Warpaint.” Basically: “a mix of arty post-punk and R&B-ish melancholy that grabs you by the nape of your neck, more than once”.

Opener will be singer-songwriter James Mathé. His debut ‘Chemical Campfires’ was praised right from the start. It became ‘album of the week’ at Rough Trade and The Independent wrote: “’Chemical Campfires’ perches on the cusp of folk and pop … fiery metaphors, mellifluous harmonies and genial groove.” He's already opened for the likes of Anna Calvi and Junip.