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United Crushers

2016 studio album by Poliça

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ23838184
Source-derived summary

United Crushers is the third studio album by Poliça. It was released by Mom + Pop Music on March 4, 2016. It is a follow-up to their 2013 album, Shulamith. It was recorded with producer Ryan Olson at the Sonic Ranch studios in El Paso, Texas. The album was named after the Minneapolis based graffiti artists by the same name.

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, United Crushers received an average score of 72% based on 19 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “United Crushers” as 2016 studio album by Poliça. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-03-04. The account is most persuasive where United, Crushers and studio can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2016 studio album by Poliça. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23838184. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2013.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Tracing reception history
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “United Crushers”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow United Crushers primary sources, United Crushers archive and United research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from United Crushers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.