Canada. Home of Bryan Adams and Celine Dion. Musical visionaries you’ll agree. You’ll be delighted to know that Tokyo Police Club are influenced in no way by their compatriots, preferring to ride the wave of hyperactive riffs and nonchalant too cool-for-school warbling that is the musical aperitif for the skinny jeans brigade.
A combination of the Cribs and Blink 182, ‘Tessellate’ is nothing new, and certainly not the finest moment for a band who have offered better than this on last year’s promising EP. It drags monotonously, while the vocal technique of over-extending every syllable takes twenty seconds to irritate like a tick burrowing into your brain. Not the best, and hopefully not a representation of their forthcoming album, ‘Elephant Shell’.
