Clash Music

Tokyo Police Club

New-Waving , Strokesian scuzz pop from Toronto

Forgive the predictability, but with a name like Tokyo Police Club, curiosity dictates me to ask the obvious: Have any of the four piece Toronto-based band ever broken the law? “Never.” Graham Wright asserts. “We had a couple of speeding tickets, that’s about the closest brushing with the law that we’ve ever had. We just happened to wind up with a band name like that.” Crime doesn’t pay, but it certainly seems to give these boys an edge. And now they would like to teach the masses their own tales of robots, machinery and chaos.
The onslaught of 2009 is transformed into a fictional yarn, as the music delves into the deepest darkest pits of modernity and futuristic sounds. With track names such as ‘Nature Of The Experiment’ and ‘Cut Cut Paste’, the technology-fuelled musical landscape is enforced with tongue-in-cheek lyrics that often suggest a slightly underlined sinister prediction for their citizens of tomorrow. It’s a promising introduction to the abstract world of Tokyo Police Club. So put away traditional thinking and make yourself a member: Japanese law enforcing is but a search warrant away…