Tokyo Police Club Unveil November UK Tour Dates & Tickets
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Written by Nigel Sachdev
Tokyo Police Club have unveiled details of a six date UK & Ireland tour for this November, kicking off in Manchester on the 4th, visiting Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, London and Brighton en route.
'Champ', out now, is the second full length studio album from this underrated Toronto band, and as its name suggests, it's a triumph - an album of taut catchy anthems that display a renewed vigour and fizz and from the young four-piece.
Tokyo Police Club first hit their stride back in 2006 when, straight out of high school, their hyperactive mini-album 'A Lesson in Crime' came from nowhere to prove one of the year's most refreshing releases, combining the youthful immediacy of The Strokes first LP with the off kilter discord of Pavement.
The surprise success of 'A Lesson in Crime' led to relentless touring through the entirety of 2006/07, with appearances anywhere and everywhere, taking in festivals from Coachella to Glastonbury, two TV appearances Letterman and, bizarrely, an appearance on an episode of Desperate Housewives. Eventually the band, by now exhausted to the extent that they were falling asleep on stage, took a month off to record. The resulting album 'Elephant Shell', released in May 2008, was a slower, sweeter more introspective affair, a surprise for fans of 'A Lesson in Crime' but one that displayed a new found lyricism from frontman-bassist and songwriter Dave Monks.
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