Tape Tum Discography of CDs

Tape Tum albums Riding an attractive blend of winsome electronics and flecks of lush, orchestrated pop that isn't so much the Beach Boys as it is refracted through later acts like the High Llamas, Tape Tum are out to gently celebrate an approach that might, in the era of acts like Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear, seem all too familiar. There are certainly hints of that enveloping freneticism -- the opening song "Tell Me Something" covers everything from soft flowing keyboards to an explosive guitar buildup -- but there's a formal precision at the heart of the arrangements that suggests more direct lines of descent from Scandinavian indie pop. There are also plenty of echoes from other happily self-conscious experimenters over the years -- the similarly fragile and crunching Butterfly Child in particular, thanks to some extremely precise ...