Tokyo Police Club - (2007) Elephant Shell

Sound: Indie/Funk/Poolhall
Length: 11 songs, 28 minutes
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1. Centennial
2. In a Cave
3. Graves
4. Juno
5. Tessellate
6. Sixties Remake
7. Harrowing Adventures of..., The
8. Nursery, Academy
9. Your English Is Good
10. Listen to the Math
11. Baskervilles, The

So i was absolutely floored about how much i loved this album until i saw they were on MTV. But (thank the gods) all the shitty music loving teeny boppers were bashing them. So my love of them was reaffirmed :). Anyway, think really upbeat and damn catchy and you've got TPC. Normally i would say not my style, but really this record is too short to not enjoy. So if you came across them on MTV and decided against it, i would implore you to take another look.

sounds like: Blood Red Shoes, Foals, Tapes N' Tapes, Ra Ra Riot, Vampire Weekend

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We Are The Scientists - (2006) With Love & Squalor

Sound: Indie/Poolhall
Length: 12 songs, 55.5 minutes
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1. "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt" – 3:12
2. "This Scene Is Dead" – 3:43
3. "Inaction" – 2:32
4. "Can't Lose" – 3:31
5. "Callbacks" – 2:02
6. "Cash Cow" – 2:35
7. "It's a Hit" – 3:26
8. "The Great Escape" – 3:18
9. "Textbook" – 4:01
10. "Lousy Reputation" – 2:35
11. "Worth the Wait" – 2:43
12. "What's the Word" – 3:17

Three Piece that plays relatively uncomplicated stuff, its just damn catchy. Worth The Wait will rumble around in your head almost as long as The Strokes-Last Night did. Songs about booze, slutty girlfriends, getting plowed, and seriously crushin'. If you like the Arctic Monkeys your pretty much guaranteed to like this record. and if you don't, then your still going to like this record.


sounds like: Ra Ra Riot, Arctic Monkeys, The Rifles, Foals and to some extent The Strokes

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