Polia are an offshoot of Ryan Olsons Gayngs collective, produced by Olsen and fronted by vocalist Channy Leaneagh. They recorded this debut LP in the wake of Leaneaghs divorce, and its RB-inspired electronica feels appropriately grief-stricken, fizzing with minor-key synths. Leanaghs laments are often indistinct, lost to a wash of silvery Auto-Tune and cascading reverb, and bolstered by a hybrid of natural and digital beats. Influences fluctuate between styles old and new, evoking shades of Portisheads 90s eeriness in places, while sounding starkly futuristic on the pummeling, siren-strewn stab ofViolent Games. Their best arrives mid-album, with the seductive, chiming singleLay Your Cards Out, temporarily collapsing the albums darker tensions in to an aching, cathartic slow jam. The lighter touches grainy jazz trumpets onDark Star,funk bass onLeading to Death suggest a duo set on expanding this heartbroken electronica.