Champ, by Tokyo Police Club

Champ

by Tokyo Police Club

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pozzetronics The best intro song I have heard on any album, it wets your appetite for the amazingness to come! Every track is a banger!!! Favorite track: Favourite Food.

quasiotter fun, energetic, clean, catchy, pretty Favorite track: Bambi.

deanizquierda 3 songs are immediately gripping and rest grow on you rapidly. It's got a garage concert feel! I adore the lingering, deepening vocal notes the lead singer uses througout this album!

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1.	Favourite Food 03:57	buy track
2.	Favourite Colour 02:39	buy track
3.	Breakneck Speed 03:43	buy track
4.	Wait Up (Boots of Danger) 03:10	buy track
5.	Bambi 02:46	buy track
6.	End of a Spark 03:37	buy track
7.	Hands Reversed 03:21	buy track
8.	Gone 03:04	buy track
9.	Big Difference 02:59	buy track
10.	Not Sick 02:58	buy track
11.	Frankenstein 03:30	buy track

about

Champ is the second full length album from Toronto’s Tokyo Police Club, 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 as it did the youthful immediacy of The Strokes first LP and the off kilter discord of Pavement.

The surprise success of A Lesson in Crime led to relentless touring through the entirety 2007, during which time they attempted and failed several times to write and record a full length album. Eventually the band, by now exhausted and burned to the extent that they were falling asleep on stage, took a month off to record. The resulting album Elephant Shell 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.

For this new record, Tokyo Police Club gave themselves time to recharge, to summon an Olympian spirit for a batch of new songs that burst with a new brightness. Says front-man bassist: “It has 11 songs, a Disney character, fuzzy bits, Canadian spelling, hockey sound effects, me singing the lowest note in my range, and one saxophone note”.

The band decamped from their native Canada to record the album in Los Angeles. “I think we've always wanted to make a summer record, something a little more breezy and less hampered down by extremely quick, tight, short songs, and the tracks on this record gave us an opportunity to explore that a little more,” says drummer Greg Alsop. “When it came time to go into the studio, the Canadian climate had turned against us and so we had to travel south to capture the vibe and feel that worked best with these songs.”

Stand out songs include the electronic pop of Bambi, the curiously titled duo Favourite Foods and Favourite Colour and the urgently anthemic Wait Up (Boots of Danger). Again Dave Monk’s lyrics are a real highlight with strikingly juxtaposed imagery – “the killer with the coloured kite”, “the national child star in a coat and a scarf, alone in the laundromat”. Ultimately, though it’s the fizz bomb youthful energy of the songs that appeals most.

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released July 19, 2010

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Jun 19

Iceberg Alley Performance Tent

St. John's, NL
Jul 12

Because Beer

Hamilton, ON
Jul 13

Pier 4 Park

Hamilton, ON
Sep 14

Commodore Ballroom

Vancouver, BC
Sep 15

Commodore Ballroom

Vancouver, BC
Sep 17

The Palace Theatre - Calgary

Calgary, AB
Sep 18

Midway

Edmonton, AB
Sep 20

The Crocodile

Seattle, WA
Sep 21

Revolution Hall

Portland, OR
Sep 23

August Hall

San Francisco, CA
Sep 24

The Observatory

Santa Ana, CA
Sep 25

The Regent Theater

Los Angeles (LA), CA
Sep 28

House of Blues San Diego

San Diego, CA
Sep 29

Nile Theater

Mesa, AZ
Oct 30

Summit Music Hall

Denver, CO
Nov 1

Varsity Theater

Minneapolis, MN
Nov 2

Majestic Theatre

Madison, WI
Nov 3

House of Blues Chicago

Chicago, IL
Nov 5

The Pageant

St Louis, MO
Nov 7

The Echo Lounge & Music Hall

Dallas, TX
Nov 7

The Echo Lounge

Dallas, TX
Nov 8

Aztec Theatre

San Antonio, TX
Nov 9

Emo's Austin

Austin, TX
Nov 11

Buckhead Theatre

Atlanta, GA
Nov 12

Music Farm

Charleston, SC
Nov 14

Howard Theatre

Washington, DC
Nov 15

Brooklyn Bowl - Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA
Nov 16

Paradise Rock Club presented by Citizens

Boston, MA
Nov 19

Irving Plaza Powered By Verizon 5g

New York (NYC), NY
Nov 20

Irving Plaza

New York (NYC), NY
Nov 26

History

Toronto, ON
Nov 27

History

Toronto, ON
Nov 28

History

Toronto, ON
Nov 29

History

Toronto, ON

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