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Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
| Billboard |
| When the band first emerged in 2006 full of startlingly brief songs and an ace EP, it appeared a second act might have been tough for Tokyo Police Club. Luckily, the songs on "Elephant Shell" are a sensible progression from the Strokes-like hooks of earlier material, showing an increasing sophistication. As with before, the brilliance is in the brevity. Even on a 28-minute album, the band does manage to shift gears, such as on "The Harrowing Adventures Of?," with its strings, xylophone melody and lyrical hook of "two wrongs make him right." The hook-and-hand-clap-laden "Tessellate" and opener "Centennial" also thrill, but with an album this brief, it's hard not to walk away wanting more....full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
| Canadian yelpers Tokyo Police Club map out the crucial difference between cursory and terse on their debut full length, Elephant Shell. The whole shebang clocks in at several minutes shy of half an hour, and it might seem cheap if its brevity wasn't so full of wit. These songs are as complex as they are short, and they're riddled with well-conceived zigs and zags. The first six, in particular, whiz past as a paradoxically memorable blur of sharp guitar figures and precision-cut rhythms. The album's first half is so tight that it's difficult to parse; even after dozens of spins, every song sounds like a single....full text |
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| Musicomh |
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Not many bands can unleash a debut long player on the crest of a wave - but Tokyo Police Club would appear to be no ordinary band, having mastered and moved on from the EP teaser format just three short years after having formed in Ontario's Newmarket. A Lesson In Crime was ludicrously well received and Your English Is Good - an internet-only single release - was subject to just about the same level of adulation. On the one hand, then, expectations are particularly high, but on the other, there's clearly something about these boys....full text |
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