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| 3.0 good | kodiaksears | August 3rd 11 |
Overall
This is the second release from Canada Electro-Indie Quartet Tokyo Police Club. last year i was introduced to Elephant Shell (Debut 2008) by a friend and thought that it was a really good consistent release, However, the album sounded like the band needed to do some maturing in their sound to really suck me into the music. When i decided to finally listen to the album from start to finish i had really great expectations having heard the songs "Bambi" and "Breakneck Speed" beforehand. For the first half of the album i was in almost a state of awe, each song that i was hearing had everything that i loved about elephant shell, but with more energy and focus. However, on the second half of the album (Tracks 6-11) i was surprisingly underwhelmed by the tracks. Almost every song on this half of the album (Excluding Frankenstein) seemed almost like filler songs that compared to the first 5 songs, Seemed to cause the momentum and excitement i was feeling to minimize greatly. The songs themselves are listenable, However, Tokyo Police Club started the album with their five strongest tracks, Its not more of a case of bad music but, bad organization.
Strengths
Dave Monk's voice- Seems to be clearer and less whiny than the first few demos and albums
Production- on this album is great, each instrument can be heard equally and the effect on the guitar and keyboard blew me away
Weaknesses
Organization- The album has a few fillers (Not a horrible thing) but all of the fillers come after the best songs on the album, which really slows momentum for the listener.
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| 3.0 good | CrazyFool84 | January 20th 11 |
Hailing from surrounding areas around me and having a buddy who really got into the band from the get go (alongside meeting them to boot) Tokyo Police Club was around me in some form or another from almost their inception. For whatever reason, I found the band pretty much annoying trendy rock with that nasal-vocal quality that just wasn’t for me. My friend tried and tried to get me into the band, but it was to no avail. A lot of time had passed, and so had my interest in even trash-talking this band. That was, until I was out for a late night drive, switched it to the EDGE and heard something that really caught my attention. This song had all the markings of a modern, trendy band trying to get heard on the radio; the thing was, they were pulling it off in a way that was giving me a reason to nod my head…a rare occurrence indeed. For whatever reason, I managed to space on the song and it was lost to me, until a friend and I heard it come up again, he too finding it rather interesting as well. Our research led to the surprise that it was a track from Tokyo Police Club (he’d be pushed hard by the same friend of mine to get into the band, but just couldn’t get past their overall sound). This track, Bambi, helped to open up our collective minds, if only for a little bit.rNow, neither of us is closed minded when it comes to music by any means – this stuff just isn’t typically for us. I can’t say that this album totally pushed me past the point of acceptance, but it definitely opened me up a little bit; as a whole this record has a pretty fun atmosphere, which is ultimately how it should be listened to.
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| 3.5 great | John L | January 29th 13 |
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| 3.5 great | scotto | June 10th 12 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Cinimin | March 2nd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matt Wolfe EMERITUS | January 28th 11 |
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| 3.5 great | Plank | December 11th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Veldin | December 3rd 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cleangod | November 27th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Centre | October 22nd 10 |
| 2.5 average | Sevhead | August 29th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | mx STAFF | August 13th 10 |
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