{"id":447,"date":"2007-02-19T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T09:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2007-02-19T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T09:50:06","slug":"tokyo-police-club-a-lesson-in-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"tokyo police club &#8211; a lesson in crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">well despite the best efforts of the useless but  royal mail service i eventually managed to get my hands on this&nbsp;mini-lp, or  ep, from <EM>memphis industries. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">third time lucky.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">sometimes the pain is all worth it in the end, and  this is one such case.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the canadian four piece released a quick little  limited 7&#8243;, <EM>nature of the experiment,<\/EM>&nbsp;in the uk late last year  (licenced from <EM>paper bag records)<\/EM>, and now follow this up with a stop  gap adrenalin filled beast to keep us all on tenderhooks for the proper  album.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">while the listing advises 8 tracks, do not be  fooled into thinking this is going to soundtrack a nice and easy magazine  reading session on the sofa. <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the songs  fizz-n-whizz by in a powered up 18 minutes making their brand of ruffed  punk-funk a tad closer than most to the blueprint that <STRONG>wire  <\/STRONG>laid down with their excellent <EM>pink flag <\/EM>debut with a dash of  vocal production a la <STRONG>the strokes<\/STRONG>.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the coverart by <EM>geoff wilson <\/EM>is worthy of  its own mention giving some insight into the bands mindset as there seems to be  some form of story involving supercomputers and world destroying mad giant  robots ! <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">who cares, the results look great, and anyone who  digs around <EM>ireallylovemusic <\/EM>knows that a fine slab of cover artwork  goes a long long way.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so all in all when you have the <EM>hey hey  hey<\/EM> chants of <EM>be good, <\/EM>the drop-the-bomb&nbsp;brilliance of self  referencing&nbsp;<EM>cheer it on<\/EM>, the trademarked scuzzy keyboard noises  all over the place, and more of those pumped up bass lines songs via the all  important paint stripping angular guitar lines, then you know that this is one  for the <EM>keep keep keep <\/EM>pile.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">fantastic.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyopoliceclub.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>memphis industries<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.memphis-industries.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>well despite the best efforts of the useless but royal mail service i eventually managed to get my hands on this&nbsp;mini-lp, or ep, from memphis industries. third time lucky. sometimes the pain is all worth it in the end, and this is one such case. the canadian four piece released a quick little limited 7&#8243;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}