Neal and Leandra perform material from "A Hundred Years From Now" on Radio Heartland

I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to max out my Polica attention span — between features on MPR’s All Things Considered, their cover story in this week’s City Pages, and last night’s very buzzed-about, very sold-out release show at First Avenue, it’s all starting to blur together a bit. So with that in…

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Holly Newsom describes Zoo Animal's new "Departure EP" as more observational than philosophical, and it's easy to discern how different the band is today compared to a year ago, fully cognizant of major changes which have altered the act's path. The title of the EP is blunt upon deeper inspection: Zoo Animal has dealt with the departure of two members, the addition of two rotating casts of local musicians, and a further departure in sound that Newsom has taken her songs which now find themselves steeped in beautiful minimalism.