A decade ago I went to see a new band called Poliça somewhere in Shoreditch. They didn’t fit into any category I knew: their immersive electronic sound had a dreamy sort of quality with an RnB undercurrent.

I remember they had no guitarist but two drummers, though only one of them played conventional drums; the other a susing a series of electronic pads to produce synthesized soundscapes.

Most of all I remember the weirdly manipulated and processed vocals, which sounded simultaneously double or triple-tracked, with at least one of those tracks put through Autotune. I didn’t think that was even possible at a live concert.

They come from Minneapolis and the singer with that distinctive vocal sound, created using foot pedals, is the strangely named Channy Leaneagh, who had previously sung in a folk-rock group called Roma di Luna, forming the group with producer Ryan Olson (with whose group Gayngs she used to sing).

Two of the standout songs from their 2012 debut album Give You The Ghost, filled with melancholy musings on her marital breakup from the father of her child, have similar titles – Dark Star and Wandering Star.

I’ve chosen this one for the phenomenal bass playing of Chris Bierden, which blows my mind. The rest of the band are those two ‘drummers’, Drew Christopherson and Ben Ivascu and Channy herself, playing synth.

I rather lost touch with them after that first album and now find they have released five more, one of them named after Channy’s mentor, the feminist Shulamith Firestone, and another a collaboration with a Berlin orchestra called Stargaze.

In February 2018 Channy broke her back falling off her roof while clearing ice from it, and her path to recovery inspired Poliça’s fifth album, When We Stay Alive.

Their most recent sixth album apparently features an “anthropomorphic production tool” called AllOvers(c), which Olson created with producer/sound artist Seth Rosetter. (And no, I don’t know what that means).