★★★★★
Take a time machine back 10 years. Tokyo Police Club's Forcefield would have fit right in. Pop music fiends would stick the lead single, "Hot Tonight," on their mix CDs, right between Plain White T's' "Hey There Delilah" and The Strokes' "12:51." It's like we've traveled to 2004, we're still using MP3 CD players and some of the cool kids even have iPods. So, at first listen, this album sounds pretty unoriginal...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2014-04-03
★★★★★
At the start of Forcefield, Tokyo Police Club seems like a band aware that it has been four years since its last record. The album opens with "Argentina (Parts I, II, III)", a huge eight-minute-plus blast of polished rock music. It's not quite as movement based as its titular "parts" suggests, but therein lies its greatness. It's a song that builds on hard-chugging power chords and propulsive drums and yearning vocals and it never lets up...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-04-01
★★★★★
Canadian collective Tokyo Police Club have spent their previous body of work (two LPs and two EPs) painstakingly crafting a signature sound. It drew a little bit from rock and a little bit from post-punk, and it was unmistakably, completely theirs, a kind of touchstone for seemingly cool and collected college kids who were really just tangled balls of emotion...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-03-28
★★★★★
Tokyo Police Club ForcefieldBy Peter SanfilippoTokyo Police Club frontman Dave Monks recently said "It just gets easier to be yourself as you get older." This encapsulates how the band approached making a new album: the Newmarket quartet took a note from their success and decided to cut themselves off from outside noise to make something all their own...
- exclaim.ca
2014-03-27
★★★★★
The concept of a force field can be applied in different forms, all of them equally impenetrable to the casual observer. It's simple to understand in a general sense, though. And instead of delving into its scientific complexities songwriter Dave Monks reduces it to a single applicable thought - he wants to shield himself from the hurt of a past relationship to safeguard himself against those emotions that are too hard to bear...
- www.noripcord.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
Never say that Tokyo Police Club has been a band to play with their listener's expectations. For all shock that fans may feel when they fire up with the sounds of three-part suite "Argentina," a song that is nearly three times as long as anything in the band's catalog, it's a fleeting feeling. That "Argentina" is one song and not three doesn't really mean anything - this is hardly the group's foray into orchestral prog...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
Tokyo Police Club burst out of the gate in 2006 with A Lesson In Crime , a nearly perfect 16 minutes of sharp, melodic indie-rock that was smarter and more fun than a new band had any real right to be. Since then, the Canadians seem to have had a little trouble defining themselves, maturing perhaps too quickly with the still-great debut full-length Elephant Shell in 2008, but finding slightly diminishing returns on 2010's Champ , which was solid but sort of adrift in the space between spunk and...
- www.avclub.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
The quartet find it hard to shake the "Canadian Strokes" tag on their fourth album
6 / 10
After the initial hype-whirl labelled them the "Canadian Strokes", it's admirable that Ontario's Tokyo Police Club have survived long enough to release their fourth album. The trouble is they still sound too much like, well, like the Canadian Strokes, although nowhere near as good as that moniker suggests...
- www.nme.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
The geeky, anxious punk-pop ditties that filled Tokyo Police Club's 2008 debut, Elephant Shell, seemed positively quaint compared to the epic, often histrionic rock anthems bands like the Killers and Bloc Party had been churning out. That sense of self-effacement is also what makes Tokyo Police Club easier to love: In a genre that prizes deadpanned apathy and bland grandiosity, or a combination of both if you're the National, the band's grinning and strangely irreverent sincerity is an enduring...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2014-03-23
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