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Mar 19, 2014It's incredibly insular and sure of itself, but it's also smartly innovative.
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MagnetApr 18, 2014Forcefield achieves a sound, which--despite the title--is all allure, no repellant. [No. 108, p.61]
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Mar 26, 2014Forcefield strips down the Tokyo formula to its most basic components of guitar riffing, a strong sense of melody and a brilliant ear for unforgettable hooks, which has birthed some of their finest work yet.
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Alternative PressMar 18, 2014Force Field makes good on being more than just a referential record. [Apr 2014, p.93]
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Mar 25, 2014Four years after Champ, the whole thing feels like a step forward, or at least somewhere interesting, off to the side.
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Mar 25, 2014Forcefield stands proudly on its own, a meat-and-potatoes rock record that swings for the FM fences and gets by on Monks’ considerable personality and the band’s seemingly limitless energy.
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Apr 2, 2014After repeated listens the songs reveal themselves to be some of the catchiest, most joyful few minutes of jagged guitar-driven pop mastery you've heard all year.
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Mar 24, 2014Tokyo Police Club operates as a kind of derelict garage band, and their offbeat lyrical imagery and crunchy guitar-drum combinations work to enhance the album's messy, unpretentious charm.
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Mar 24, 2014Tokyo Police Club worked with co-producer Doug Boehm, who has also collaborated with the French Kicks, and Forcefield often recalls how that band managed to sound sophisticated and unpretentious at the same time
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Mar 21, 2014Tokyo Police Club have finally made small sound huge.
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Mar 20, 2014It’s a goldmine of catchy power pop, with the odd misstep, but anyone claiming to find little here in the way of feel good factor is likely to be deaf, ignorant or just sitting within their own sound-proof forcefield.
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Mar 18, 2014Sometimes doing what comes naturally is as big a risk as attempting to do something outside of your comfort zone, and that gamble paid off this time for Tokyo Police Club.
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Mar 21, 2014This a pop album, produced like pop and structured to grant instant gratification. And yet, this presentation throws the flaws of Tokyo Police Club’s dullest songs into sharp relief.
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Q MagazineApr 23, 2014The combination of dreamy pop noir and the remorseless quality of the tunes suggest they'll soon be both big and clever. [May 2014, p.119]
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Mar 25, 2014Forcefield chiefly sounds more relaxed and natural, fully letting go of the stilted verses and swift tempos they’ve been gradually forgoing ever since A Lesson in Crime made such an immediate splash.
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Mar 24, 2014It’s unspectacularly solid stuff.
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Mar 21, 2014While fans of the band's more lo-fi beginnings may stare, open-mouthed, bemused at the central role played by synths on Forcefield, there's every chance they'll be gaining a whole slew of newbies, should these many choruses be set loose.
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Mar 20, 2014It’s a collection to bob your head and sing along to, something that will never go out of style.
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Mar 18, 2014For all its lack of idiosyncrasies, however, there’s a credibly unashamed attitude to creating perfectly fine pop songs.
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Mar 18, 2014Forcefield a passable, fun album.
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Apr 1, 2014If Forcefield is about hitting you in the moment, it does that. Sadly, much of it doesn’t last for the moment that comes next.
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Mar 27, 2014Tokyo Police Club’s signature sound, the niche that they carved out for themselves in a constantly fluctuating music scene (an emphasis on rhythm and abstract, maze-like lyrics with real emotion at their center) is almost completely gone, replaced by a rabid pop sensibility that sometimes works and sometimes really, really doesn’t.
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Mar 30, 2014
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Mar 30, 2014Really good...........................................................................................................................................
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Mar 31, 2014