Tokyo Police Club - DLTFWYH

1. Who are they? 

Tokyo Police Club are a popular indie rock band from New Market, Ontario, Canada. They started playing together in 2005. 


2. What?

DLTFWYH (Don’t Let Them Fuck With Your Heart) (July’18) is a single from their fourth album TPC (Oct’18). 


3. Who are Tokyo Police Club similar to? 

Arkells, Ra Ra Riot, and Said The Whale. 


4. What have the press said about DLTFWYH?

“Anticipatory verses and a crashing chorus” – Paste. 

“Essentially one long buildup to a boisterous explosion of guitars” – Consequence Of Sound. 

“A bit of alternative twang” – All Things Go Music. 

5. Which bands are Tokyo Police Club's influences? 

The Strokes, Weezer, Plastic Ono Band, Led Zeppelin, and Royal Headache. 

6. Why should I give DLTFWYH a listen? 

DLTFWYH has a structure that builds tension and releases it better than expensive Thai pussy. The influence of Led Zeppelin is evident in the song structure and the tune eschews the lighter pop of some of their previous efforts. DLTFWYH sounds like Tokyo Police Club got a new lease of life. It sounds electric. It sounds vital.

7. What are Tokyo Police Club's best songs? 

The House, Hot Tonight, and Toy Guns.

8. Anything else? 

TPC was produced by Rob Schnapf (The Vines, FIDLAR, Saves The Day).

Lois - Monkey Girl

1.   Who are this cheerful looking crew?

Lois are an indie rock'n'roll band from Nottingham, England and making wild music since 2007. Lois have one long player The Polperro Horse Bus Company (2015) for keepsies and a short player. Monkey Girl (Sept'15) bounces off the album and is a 2011 re-release. Worth the trouble but.

2. What kind of gold have we gleaned from Lois?

Monkey Girl is a vital, modern garage rocker with grimey, fuzzy, reverb filled guitars and lashings of sixties rock trimmings for flavor. The rhythm bounces like an epileptic Eskimo's bum making love in the snow.

3. Who do Lois sound like?

Monkey Girl is like Allah La's Every Girl and Night Beat's No Cops but with more grit. The Kinks come to mind.

Nottingham Live compared Lois to The Manic Street Preachers, Kula Shaker and Primal Scream.

4. What have those bastions of fine taste, the music press, got to say about Monkey Girl?

“Retro-tinged coolness with a fresh and exciting modern edge.” – Reverb Nation.

“Pay attention... this is how you make a single.” – Leftlion Magazine.

“This song is so catchy you will be fighting an earworm for weeks.” – Rock At Night.

 

 

5. Which bands have influenced these fine fellows?

Lois’ major influences are The Doors, The Beatles, The Small Faces and Elvis Presley. Lois have also mentioned some love for Booker T and The MG's, Labelle, T Rex, The Rolling Stones, The Charlatans and The Long Blondes.

 

6. Why should I give Monkey Girl a whirl?

Garage rock is huge at the minute and Monkey Girl is a vital addition. As catchy as the flu in a kindy.

 

7. Do Lois have any more good songs?

Be True To Yourself has an epic Oasis or Beatles singalong quality.

 

8. Any more pearls of wisdom about these mystical musicians?

Check out the support crew on Lois' recordings. Guy Massey has gone to work for The Beatles and The Manic Street Preachers. Jim Spencer has slaved in the dungeon for The Charlatans, The Cribs, Oasis, The Vaccines and New Order. Jon Astley has put nose to the grind for The Who and The Small Faces. Rock'n'roll nobility my friends.
 

 

“I see you walk out with Honky Tonk,
Dressed in your high heels I see through you,
Unlike the others you’re still abused”

 



 

Dessert is served by Ratatat a New York indie electronic rock duo. Playing together since 2001 the band have five long players under the bed. Cream On Chrome (April'15) rolls off their fifth album Magnifique (2015). Line Of Best Fit say Cream On Chrome, “Slowly builds to an ebulliently unnerving crescendo.” Don't wait for the vocals to kick in it's an instrumental.