Video: Los Angeles Police Department, ‘If I Lied’

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Los Angeles Police Department at Echo Park Rising (Photo by Kevin Bronson)
Los Angeles Police Department at Echo Park Rising (Photo by Kevin Bronson)

The second album from Los Angeles Police Department, a self-titled affair released in April, is full of tender, melancholy tunes that Ryan Pollie somehow sings with a smile. It’s not that Pollie doesn’t truly feel their sadness, it’s just his game of musical grin-and-bear-it, arriving in an era when grinning and bearing feels like a monumental task. His acoustic narrative “If I Lied” is “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,” Pollie says. The video for the song comes with animation by John Andrews (The Yawns, Woods, Quilt, Kevin Morby). It tells a story too, of a band getting their big chance on late-night TV.

||| Watch: The video for “If I Lied”

||| Live: Los Angeles Police Department does a Monday night residency in November at the Bootleg Theater.