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The full-length debut from Canadian indie rockers Tokyo Police Club makes good on the promise of their 2006 EP, A LESSON IN CRIME. But where the EP was full of youthful, pell-mell, punked-up energy, ELEPHANT SHELL shows the band honing their angular indie rock into a style that's as seductive as it is energetic.
The atmospheric "Juno" and the dreamy, meandering "The Harrowing Adventures of ?" show how Tokyo Police Club are maturing, but despite amazingly sharp songcraft and brain-bending shoegaze guitars, the music is still driven by propulsive rhythms and nervy, post-punk chops that recall the Strokes. "Centennial" and "Graves" are two tracks that show just how promising this outfit, and ELEPHANT SHELL, can be.Rolling Stone (p.83) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he music is lean, clean and spacious: expertly constructed post-punk miniatures full of ringing guitar and keyboard counterpoint, melodic bass work, and drumming that tilts rock songs...gently toward the dance floor."
Uncut (p.94) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[S]tructural sophistication and melodic savvy now figure alongside intensity and drive....[A] sharp effort."
CMJ - "Not only does every track feel integral to the overall collection, but there isn't a spare note, drum fill or chorus to be wrung from any one song."
Q (Magazine) (p.148) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] chiming lead guitar, melodic prominent bass, and every song rattles along merrily before stopping abruptly, as though the three-minute mark was an impassable forcefield."
Blender (Magazine) (p.79) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Making good on the promise of two nervously explosive EPs, Tokyo Police Club indulge in plenty of echoey atmospherics but also add Foo Fighers-esque blasts of guitar, as if leaping into action and kicking over their chairs."
Paste (magazine) (p.67) - "Tokyo Police Club tempers its tight jangle with lyrics on just the right side of sappy..."
Clash (magazine) (p.110) - "Each track a potential single, these guys don't hang around, going straight for the jugular, blasting out soaring indie rock nuggets honed by endless touring." Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell Songs Elephant Shell Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   Great!
This is just the perfect example of what alternative rock should be. Fun, creative, and lively, Tokyo Police Club expand off their brilliant "Lesson In Crime" EP. Great buy.
Submitted by Jack (Little Rock, AR, USA)
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 If the single doesn't catch, then other songs might.
You get the heading right, then the first 3 tracks right off the bat got me addicted to this band's way of interpreting indie rock in such a mild-mannered fashion, why bother with Wintersleep's rise to success is just a bore to me besides what Weighty Ghost and Oblivion have overdone themselves on radio. What's the bore is the remixes. So blah to Wintersleep and blah to remixes. Stick with the originals. They're just as good in what process got spunk to serious on their first full-length proceeded as 'Elephant Shell'. It's no shame to put Tokyo Police Club to be the breakout band for this year. That's as honest as honesty gets. Sorry, Wintersleep. You're trying too hard.
Submitted by Hmmm-mmm (Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)
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On this immensely appealing debut, SILENT ALARM, the London-based quartet Bloc Party fulfills the promise of their barnstorming 2004 singles "Banquet" and "She's Hearing Voices." Led by magnetic frontman Kele Okereke, the band extracts the most fascinating aspects of the previous 25 years of British indie rock and fuses them into a new entity--complete with smarts and heart--never delving into retro-kitsch or slavish imitation.
Okerere's urgent yelp most often recalls a fired-up incarnation of the Cure's Robert Smith, but the sounds the group creates echo everything from Gang of Four's staccato militarism ("Banquet") to the reverberating guitars of the Chameleons ("Price of Gas"). At times, Bloc Party also recalls the ecstatic soundwashes of early-1990s cult pioneers like Ride ("Plans") and Slowdive ("Compliments"). Lyrically, Okerere tilts toward an endearing adolescent pessimism that, even when the music is less than mopey, gives him away as a goth at heart ("and the ravens are leaving the tower/make your peace"). However, ...
| | Menomena Friend And Foe CD (2007)
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Though Menomena often peg themselves as an experimental band, and to some extent very much are an experimental band -- they create most of their songs using a homemade computer program that loops their instrumental riffs until they come up with something whole -- especially in the rhythm section, where the bass and drums play off one another intricately, blending punk- and funk-inspired beats with more straightforward rock emphases, they also have a delicate sense of melody and composition that balances these heavier underpinnings and makes the band rather poppy at times. It's a nice contrast, the lighter keyboards and almost nasally indie rock vocals (which all three members share) against the pounding drums and ominous saxophone. Musically, there's a lot happening on Friend and Foe, their first release with Barsuk -- different bits entering and exiting -- but it's not overwhelming or pretentious, because the band knows what it takes to create a song, and so they can then deconstruct its more typical notions and rebuild ...
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Liner Note Author: Enrico Riva.
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As a small child my mother and I had Bible Studies together. I know that it was through her fervent prayer that God had a plan for my life.I am one of 11 children raised in the projects on the south side of Chicago. I started smoking marijuana and using alcohol at age 13. My schooling was thus affected and my grades began to drop. I missed graduating high school by 1/4 of a credit. At 18, I enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps where I served 4 years, completed my GED, served in an elite fighting force called "The Super Squad", and traveled the world. However, because of my addictions I was finally kicked out of the service in 1984. A few years later I returned to Chicago and took with me a huge crack addiction which ruined my life. I lost many good jobs, including one with the Chicago Stock Exchange, and it ruined my marriage ...
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Yoel Diaz grew up on the tough streets of Holguin in eastern Cuba. He was selected ...
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