Omaha, NE (Top40 Charts/ Saddle Creek) - The eagerly anticipated debut CD/LP/Digital from Tokyo
Police Club, Elephant Shell, was released on April 22.
TPC will make their live MTV debut on Friday, July 25 as part of their F'N MTV show. The band will perform "Graves" and one other song as well as premiere the video for "Graves." The show will air at 8PM EST/PST.
The band has added a few new tour dates, including stops at the Monolith, Treasure Island and Voodoo Music Festivals. Look for more fall tour dates to be added very soon!
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell CD/LP/Digital Following one of the most well-received 16 minutes of music in recent history (2006's A Lesson In Crime EP), Newmarket, Ontario's Tokyo Police Club released their debut album Elephant Shell on April 22.
Elephant Shell lands roughly a year and half after A Lesson In Crime (with last year's Smith EP and "Your English Is Good" digi-single bridging the gap), which has sold over 30,000 copies and garnered accolades from Entertainment Weekly ("We can hardly wait for the full length" A-), Rolling Stone ("If only all young guitar bands were smart enough to rock out this fast, banging out seven first-rate mod- punk party starters in barely more than sixteen minutes"), Interview, Blender, Nylon and The New York Times among others.
Tokyo Police Club was formed in 2005 by David Monks (vocals, bass), Josh Hook (guitar), Graham Wright (keyboards), and Greg Alsop (drums). Elephant Shell is the sound of these four early-20- somethings, now seasoned by hundreds of shows from tiny clubs to the festival throngs at Coachella and Glastonbury, delivering on every bit of promise in their rapid-fire barrage of material to date. The opening one-two of "Centennial" and "In A Cave" barely evaporates before "Graves" and "Juno" pack innumerable hooks and "what-does-that- remind-me-of" glimmers into meager 2-minute-and-change frameworks, while first single "Tessellate" and "Sixties Remake" encapsulate everything great about the manic TPC live experience: soaring guitar signatures and keyboard figures, driving backbeats and irresistible singalongs abound. Elsewhere, "The Harrowing Adventures Of..." and the down-tempo standout "Listen To The Math" find our young protagonists ably adapting their energy into more subdued structures before the rousing coda of "The Baskervilles" brings the record to an all-too-early halt.
Tokyo Police Club - Summer 2008
Sat-Jul-19, Halifax, NS, Citadel Hill
Sun-Jul-20, Toronto, ON, Old Fort York
Thu-Jul-24, Los Angeles, CA, Hammer Museum
Sun-Sep-14, Denver, CO, Red Rocks - Monolith Festival
Sun-Sep-21, San Francisco, CA, Treasure Island Music Festival
Sat-Oct-18, New York, NY, Webster Hall
Sat-Oct-25, New Orleans, LA, Voodoo Music Experience
