Here’s another press release we can be excited about! Tokyo Police Club, will release their fourth full-length album, TPC, Oct. 5th on Dine Alone Records.  The Ontario quartet announced the album in July with a double A-side single, “Hercules” and “DLTFWYH”, arriving via Billboard & Paste  respectively, and premiered the video for the next single, “Simple Dude”, recently via Consequence of Sound.

TPC was almost not meant to be.  Coming off a tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of their debut EP, A Lesson In Crime, 3/4 of the band felt like perhaps the time had come to call it a career, and figured singer/songwriter Dave Monks would feel the same.  Except he didn’t.  Instead a plea to give it one more go was the reply, “Let’s make this band feel like a band we would want to be in again,” Monks implored. “Let’s make it about being present for the moments that are important more than about being devoted to some rock stardom fantasy. We at least gotta go make Abbey Road first, and go out with a bang.”

After putting aside the idea of splitting up and back-burnering their commercial expectations, the guys convened in a church in rural Ontario, where they recaptured the energy of their early years by playing in a room together.  When it came time to take these songs in to the studio, everyone felt there was only one person who to capture that energy on tape – producer Rob Schnapf, whom the band worked with on 2010’s Champ.  They convened at his Los Angeles studio this winter and in a matter of weeks had the album they wanted.

A first track, “New Blues”, was released in April in conjunction with a three-week U.S. tour supporting Matt & Kim, during which the guys cranked out a set featuring songs off TPC, giving fans an early opportunity to get excited and hear what the guys had been up to.  Monks’ friends could once again help shape his songs into Tokyo Police Club songs, and the batch that ended up on the record aren’t quite like anything they’d done before.  They’re through being cool, through doubting themselves, and through wasting time on ancillary things. TPC is self-titled, almost, because it’s Tokyo Police Club circa 2018—scarred but smarter, fully re-energized.

This is an album that we can dance and sing and rock out together to. It is fun and energetic and a great listen. I look forward to the release October 5 and you should too!

Tour Dates can be found on their website. I highly encourage you to go sing and dance at a show near you.