[stream] Tokyo Police Club // Sweetness (Featuring Michael Angelakos)

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[stream] Tokyo Police Club // Sweetness (Featuring Michael Angelakos)

Written on August 26, 2011 by Dave in Cover, Music

tokyo police club sweetness [stream] Tokyo Police Club // Sweetness (Featuring Michael Angelakos)

Tokyo Police Club sent an email around a few weeks back proclaiming their intent to cover 10 songs over 10 days, spanning 10 years history of contemporary music. I’ll admit it piqued my interest only slightly, because they didn’t exactly admit who and what they were covering. That they decided to cover far and away my favorite Jimmy Eat World song, and also decided to include Mike Angelakos from Passion Pit on vocals for it gave me a bit more pause. They chose a Moby cover for 2001, “Sweetness” for 2002, and announced a Strokes cover for 2003. The subsequent tracks have yet to be announced, so if you are interested keep checking in to see what they come up with.

As for the cover, I didn’t much care for it. The immediacy of the original is lacking here, and the nonsensical lyrics – masked by the intensity – are found lacking. Angelakos doesn’t add anything particularly important either. Now, this whole project is being done one day at a time – as in the band practices, records and mixes one song per day. I don’t know if a bit more work on this would change anything, but thus far it seems an exercise better in thought than in practice.

Sweetness (Featuring Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit) by TokyoPoliceClub

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[mp3] Best of 2010: 10-6

Written on December 30, 2010 by Dave in Music

The second part of our look at our favorite albums of the past year takes us from 10 to 6, with the remaining albums tomorrow. We hope everyone is having an excellent week to this point.

Harlem // Hippies

The second album from this Austin, TX trio is a bombastic, smug shamble of an album, held together loosely with spit and scotch tape; it sounds like everything could fall apart at anytime, which sounded great to us. -A

[mp3] Harlem – Friendly Ghost

Crocodiles // Sleep Forever

Stepping past the haze and feedback that saturated their first album, San Diego’s Crocodiles proved that they were not, in fact, just another Wavves. Sleep Forever is well-rounded, displaying excellent songwriting and hooks while still retaining some of the noise that got them to this point. -A

[mp3] Crocodiles – Sleep Forever

Arcade Fire // The Suburbs

To those who say The Suburbs wasn’t a great album, I ask this – what if it wasn’t Arcade Fire who gave it to us? In a year that started slow but ended fraught with excellent music, Arcade Fire deserve this top ten spot due to their typically excellent work. -D

[watch] Arcade Fire – Ready to Start

Vampire Weekend // Contra

Despite – or perhaps because of – the fact that Vampire Weekend has become one of the biggest indie bands around, with their music soundtracking myriad movies and commercials, it became lost that Contra is actually a pretty damn good album. -A

[mp3] Vampire Weekend – Cousins

Tokyo Police Club // Champ

Perhaps we’re biased. Champ hasn’t shown up on a lot of year-end best-of lists, and everyone is entitled to their opinion. But we can’t be alone in thinking this was an immensely enjoyable and logical step-forward for a rather talented band that resides often within a genre that isn’t quite conducive to lauding. -D

[mp3] Tokyo Police Club – Wait Up (Boots of Danger)

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[mp3] Tokyo Police Club // Favorite Colour (PUNCHES Remix)

Written on December 8, 2010 by Andy in Music

This track will undoubtedly have made it’s rounds of a multitude of blogs by the time you see it here, but seeing as how it combines two of our favorites, it’s too good to not pass along.

I’ve been into every single track that I’ve heard from Brooklyn disco outfit PUNCHES – whether it’s an unexpected remix (see: their remix of Jackie Wilson) or a track of their own making, and this one isn’t an exception. It spins the lead track from Tokyo Police Club’s 2010 album Champ out a little bit, infusing it with a looping piano, space-y synths, horns and a pulsing bass line.

This particular remix is not as bombastic as PUNCHES usually does things, but it’s fitting nonetheless. ”Favorite Colour” was a favorite from Champ, and this remix doesn’t diminish our enjoyment of the track at all.

Tokyo Police Club – Favorite Colour (PUNCHES Remix) (mp3)

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[mp3] Tokyo Police Club – End of a Spark (Daytrotter Session)

Written on December 5, 2010 by Andy in Live, Music

20031400 110494 [mp3] Tokyo Police Club End of a Spark (Daytrotter Session) If it seems like I’ve done a lot of talking about re-listening to the albums that have come out this year, it’s because I have. I’ve been meticulous about it, running through them in alphabetical order, figuring out what it is I really enjoy. My issue this year is that, while there has been a lot of good albums released, there are very few great albums. It makes my Top 3 relatively easy, but the rest of my personal list has gone somewhat slower.

Tokyo Police Club’s sophomore album – Champ – doesn’t fall in my “great” category, but it’s on the higher side of good. It’s not a huge departure from their stellar debut, but it does offer different textures and feeling than Elephant Shell did, and it’s still catchy as hell. The band put on one of my favorite concerts from this past year (although it’s still a resolution of mine to go to more), and when Dave and I talked to Dave Monks briefly before the show, he seemed like a genuinely nice guy. That doesn’t have much bearing on the music he makes, but it was nice to know he wasn’t a dick.

The band recorded a session for Daytrotter that was released a little more than a month ago that’s pretty great. The band is pretty straight ahead in concert, and the session displays that. And while Tokyo Police Club might not be anything revelatory in a live setting, it’s nice to hear a band that’s good at what they do.

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Tokyo Police Club – End of a Spark (Daytrotter Session) (mp3)

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[music video] Tokyo Police Club – Bambi

Written on August 26, 2010 by Dave in Music, Video

One of the more unique sounding tracks Tokyo Police Club has ever written, “Bambi” was an early standout for me, both in sound and lyrical content. I wasn’t sure how this song would translate to the live setting, so when the band pulled it off swell-like in Buffalo, I was rather pleased. The video is pretty much straight performance shots, with no narrative to speak of. I don’t mind that at all if done in an interesting way. This isn’t a spectacular video by any means, but it kept my attention for the duration.

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