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Tapes 'N Tapes - Walk It Off
| Avclub | | Tapes 'N Tapes' 2005 debut, The Loon, had critics scrambling for indie references and precedents: Nothing this fully formed could possibly be sui generis. Pavement and the Pixies got tossed around the most, which is fair enough, but TNT doesn't have the former's literary snottiness or the latter's abrasive edge, just a preference for '90s guitar tangle over '00s twee streamlining. It's probably best to treat TNT not as plagiarists of the new critical canon, then, but as a worthy addition—or at least a footnote. Little has changed since The Loon: The band still likes to cover hooks and ballads with dense harmonic interplay, letting guitars fight it out through feedback. But the sound is thicker: Producer Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) pumps up the bass and musses the mix, giving the band the same kind of makeover Sleater-Kinney got for The Woods....full text |
| | Billboard | | This foursome admitted its second album's theme is related to struggling forward (hence the title), which hints at the acidic attitude encased on its 12 tracks. Tapes 'N Tapes' breakout '06 debut was characterized by fuzzy vintage cool, and it's followed here with a much more frustrated version of the same. "Walk It Off" again plays at lo-fi and fiddles with styles, borrowing from Frank Black as often as from no one at all, but does it with less of the naïve charm. Small combinations of songs seem like a mixtape mistake, clashing like plaid and polka dots (try the hairy, unison-voiced "Le Ruse" with the ghost-drummed "Say Something Back" and the weird space slam "Blunt")....full text |
| | Musicomh | | Minneapolis based four piece Tapes 'n Tapes were the bloggers buzz band of 2006 storming into the fold with The Loon, a triumphant album dripping with the ghost of seminal bands past most notably Pavement and the Pixies. With the indie community worshipping at the alter of Tapes they signed to XL Recordings home of such delights as Radiohead, Vampire Weekend and Devendra Banhart....full text |
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