As they bid farewell to their fans with a late summer/early fall North American tour and a farewell Toronto show in November, Tokyo Police Club has gifted us with one last treat – two brand new songs called ‘Just A Scratch’ and ‘Catch Me If You Can’. These tracks showcase the band’s unique sound and energy that will be greatly missed.
About the tracks by Tokyo Police Club:
I got the first demo of these tracks at my parent’s old house, after spending the day helping them pack to move away from the town where I grew up – the town where TPC met and formed. I listened on phone speakers, sitting on the edge of an air mattress in an empty room in an empty house, remembering the countless days and nights spent in garages and basements and bedrooms, writing and jamming and daydreaming about rock and roll glory – becoming a band.
Even in demo form, even before we knew they’d be our last releases as TPC, the songs FELT summative to me, full of everything that made me fall in love with this band in the first place. I hear bits that we might have come up with in the garage back then, and other bits we could never have dreamed up until right now. I hear all the music we ever loved and all the music we ever made – and most importantly, I hear US, the four of us, the hivemind that is TPC, with all its ideas and enthusiasm.” – Graham Wright
“I remember Graham sending me a drive folder full of instrumental loops and blips, and song tid-bits, and digging through it like a treasure box. Dragging things into ProTools and moving them around in different ways, it’s something fun we had messed around with before on La Ferrassie and Feel the Effect. That’s why ‘Catch Me If You Can’ has the drums dropping out a bunch of times in it; that was just part of the loop Graham sent, and I love how it adds to the arrangement in a way we wouldn’t naturally have come up with.” – Dave Monks
Just A Scratch / Catch Me If You Can gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Tokyo Police Club – Just A Scratch / Catch Me If You Can [Listen]
