Ryan Pollie is gearing up to release his second album as Los Angeles Police Department, and so far we’ve heard I Absolutely adore this sincere songwriting style . The tracks “Grown” and “The Plane 2” from the album. Today, he’s shared another new song called “If I Lied,” and it’s a plaintively-strummed and twangy song that sees Pollie playing with different perspectives (he says it’s “the story of a train hopper in denial of how he’s mistreated the love of his life unsure if he’s losing her or if he’s lost her already”), and it’s a sorta pathetic but desperately sweet plea to engage in a conversation: “There are still so many things to say that day/ And if I walk, then you might run away, no way,” Pollie sings with a backing drum that sounds like the rumble of the train tracks.
“If I Lied” by Los Angeles Police Department from the self-titled second album, available due April 28th
“I’m a student of the album, so it was important to make this more than just a collection of the best songs I had written,” says Pollie, who started Los Angeles Police Department in 2013. “It had to be a journey for me and for the listener.”
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