Seraphina Lotkhamnga on August 20th, 2014

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Ryan Pollie has impressed us with the very fact that he’s been able to hold on to Los Angeles Police Department as a recording moniker (bands named for government agencies like Chicago Transit Authority, eventually Chicago, didn’t fare as well back in the day). But Pollie’s recordings are the real ticket. When he released the short and sweet tunes “Enough Is Enough” and “The Only One” last year, it wasn’t hard to get wrapped in his warm Pavement-like simplicity. Pollie’s material for LAPD is sparse on the surface but subtly sexy and layered, which is why the lengths of the songs may leave listeners hanging. Even the new single “She Came Through (Again)” – a song about screw-ups and redemption – is only 2 minutes 33 seconds, but the hints of Neutral Milk Hotel yet again wash over like a warm bath. Intimately recorded in his bedroom again, self-produced and then mastered for vinyl by Warren Hildebrand (of Foxes In Fiction), it’s the first track from LAPD’s forthcoming self-titled debut, and we’ll just tell you now that all 11 tracks make for an arresting body of work. “Los Angeles Police Department” is slated for a Sept. 2 release via Forged Artifacts (vinyl) and Chill Mega Chill (cassette tape).

||| Download: “She Came Through (Again)”

||| Previously: “Enough Is Enough,” “The Only One”