Stream: Los Angeles Police Department, ‘Insecurity’

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Ryan Pollie is a very tall man with a very low self-opinion — at least, if you take his wry, shambolic garage-pop literally. Pollie is the winking mastermind behind the quartet Los Angeles Police Department, whose noisy 2014 debut album crackled with lovingly misshapen pop songs, ragged and hooky and most of which ended too soon. The morning-after meditation “Insecurity,” at 3 1/2 minutes, almost qualifies as epic by LAPD standards; it will be available as a 7-inch on Feb. 24 via Fat Possum. It almost sounds like a hangover, which makes you wonder if, as with so many consciously lo-fi popsters, the real insecurity isn’t ducking decent production values.

||| Stream: “Insecurity”

||| Live: Los Angeles Police Department plays Monday night at the Echo on the opening night of Avid Dancer’s residency, along with Northern American.

||| Previously: “Enough Is Enough,” “She Came Through (Again),” “The Only One”

Photo by Carl Pocket