Music Review

A Lesson in Crime (2006)

Tokyo Police Club

Reviewed by Leah Greenblatt | Dec 04, 2006

Leah Greenblatt

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EW's GRADE

A-

Details Release Date: Oct 10, 2006; Lead Performance: Tokyo Police Club; Genre: Rock

$CANADIAN \'CLUB\' The new EP by Tokyo Police Club (shown in concert at New York\'s Bowery Ballroom in November 2006)...$

Image credit: Tokyo Police Club: Lucy Hamblin/Retna

CANADIAN 'CLUB' The new EP by Tokyo Police Club (shown in concert at New York's Bowery Ballroom in November 2006) has us thinking Crime pays

Our neighbors to the North, so big lately in the indie-rock export business (see Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Wolf Parade, et al.), send yet another excellent act across the border: Ontario's barely legal Tokyo Police Club. At 16 minutes, A Lesson in Crime offers little more than a quick, fizzy rush, but does so in beguiling style, with rangy guitar lines, a bruising rhythm section, and a singer who sounds not unlike the Strokes' Julian Casablancas, minus the upper-class ennui. We can hardly wait for the full-length.

Originally posted Dec 01, 2006 Published in issue #910 Dec 08, 2006 Order article reprints

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