Los Angeles Police Department
Longtime readers, listeners & appreciators will already be familiar with the music of Ryan Pollie made under a moniker taken after one of the world’s most notorious brood of law enforcement—Los Angeles Police Department—a cult favorite to many a musician, pop culture writer across the board. And with a name as provocative as the LAPD, you would think this would be one of those projects of love destined to languish in the subterranean undergrounds of obscurity until the world received world that Los Angeles Police Department got signed to ANTI, with indications that Pollie’s already eclectic sound only continues to expand in all directions.
Featuring a listen to the single “If I Lied” featured off the anticipated Los Angeles Police Department self-titled album available April 28; Ryan expresses a song that is strummed with a bare & open earthiness & earnestness that brings his composition approach back to the basics. Ryan takes on the narrative of a drifting freight train jumper (which Pollie apparently used to do on the regular we have been told) grappling of letting go of a relationship. The process of inner-reckoning is described in a lyrical & percussion production that moves at the steady & steam driving rate of locomotion riding the rails. Harmonic howls sound off like horns in a tunnel where rustic folk rock tales will bring a little wandering sunshine to your day & or night. LAPD’s own Ryan Pollie presented us with his own exclusive & official introduction to the new single:
“If I Lied” is about this fictional character that’s like a cowboy, wanderer, and freight-hopper that I imagine fitting nicely within the cast of Days of Heaven. The guy thinks he’s right all the time, and is in denial that he’s done anything wrong to his best gal, but is also hyper aware of her leaving him and pretty insecure about it. Of course, this is a FICTIONAL story and bears no resemblance to ANY real relationship in my life. although, I was once a train hopper.
