Elephant Shell by Tokyo Police Club (CD, Apr-2008, 2 Discs, Saddle Creek Records)

Album Features
UPC:	648401011623
Artist:	Tokyo Police Club
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2008
Record Label:	Saddle Creek Records
Genre:	Rock & Pop
Number Of Discs:	2

Track Listing
DISC 1:
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

DISC 2:
1. Centennial - (Dntel remix)
2. Tessellate - (Tom Campesinos remix)
3. Nursery, Academy - (Flowers Forever remix)
4. Listen to the Math - (The Good Life remix)
5. Tessellate - (Field Music remix)

Details
Distributor:	Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
The full-length debut from Canadian indie rockers Tokyo Police Club makes good on the promise of their 2006 EP, A LESSON IN CRIME. But where the EP was full of youthful, pell-mell, punked-up energy, ELEPHANT SHELL shows the band honing their angular indie rock into a style that's as seductive as it is energetic.The atmospheric "Juno" and the dreamy, meandering "The Harrowing Adventures of ?" show how Tokyo Police Club are maturing, but despite amazingly sharp songcraft and brain-bending shoegaze guitars, the music is still driven by propulsive rhythms and nervy, post-punk chops that recall the Strokes. "Centennial" and "Graves" are two tracks that show just how promising this outfit, and ELEPHANT SHELL, can be.

Editorial Reviews
Each track a potential single, these guys don't hang around, going straight for the jugular, blasting out soaring indie rock nuggets honed by endless touring.
Clash

Tokyo Police Club tempers its tight jangle with lyrics on just the right side of sappy...
Paste

3.5 stars out of 5 -- Making good on the promise of two nervously explosive EPs, Tokyo Police Club indulge in plenty of echoey atmospherics but also add Foo Fighers-esque blasts of guitar, as if leaping into action and kicking over their chairs.
Blender

3 stars out of 5 -- [With] chiming lead guitar, melodic prominent bass, and every song rattles along merrily before stopping abruptly, as though the three-minute mark was an impassable forcefield.
Q

CMJ Not only does every track feel integral to the overall collection, but there isn't a spare note, drum fill or chorus to be wrung from any one song.

3 stars out of 5 -- [S]tructural sophistication and melodic savvy now figure alongside intensity and drive....[A] sharp effort.
Uncut

3 stars out of 5 -- [T]he music is lean, clean and spacious: expertly constructed post-punk miniatures full of ringing guitar and keyboard counterpoint, melodic bass work, and drumming that tilts rock songs...gently toward the dance floor.
Rolling Stone