| Tapes 'n Tapes / Loon, The |
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| Album: | Loon, The | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Tapes 'n Tapes | Added: | Feb 2006 | |
| Label: | Ibid Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-02-19 | Pull Date: | 2006-04-23 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 23 | Apr 16 | Apr 9 | Apr 2 | Mar 26 | Mar 19 | Mar 12 | Mar 5 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 08, 2012: | A Family Affair Cowbell | 4. | Mar 22, 2011: | Panorama English Insistor | |
| 2. | Apr 27, 2012: | Outrun My Gun Jakov's Suite | 5. | Mar 14, 2010: | One In The Hand / The Man From Kazan Manitoba | |
| 3. | Nov 09, 2011: | Buford J. Sharkley's Themeless Escapades Insistor | 6. | Feb 10, 2010: | Static Cling Insistor |
| Album Review |
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| Wicked Child Reviewed 2006-02-12 | ||
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Catchy, fun, loud indie-rock. The vocals are often fuzzed in the Modest Mouse/Wolf Parade/Pavement style, but the clean sound is welcome as well. The guitars on this album are more interesting than a lot of indie, it channels both proto-punk and post-punk. -- Tapes 'n Tapes sound like they can't help but make sweet, listenable indie-rock that their parents would like, but desperately want to be angry, so they'll randomly turn up the distortion and fuzz the vocals. They learned this from the Pixies. Picks: 3, 7, 11. FCC Clean -Wicked Child 1) Lots of garage-rock guitar noodling, heavily fuzzed vocals. Energetic ending. 2) Weak track, repetitive. Still has crunchy guitars and fun sound effects. ***3) Rolling western/jangly guitars. Clean verse vocals, great Franz-Ferdinand fuzzy chorus vocals. ~9s fade-out. The album’s clear single. Super catchy. 4) Hummed opening, then angular, post-punky guitars (think Mclusky). Almost no vocals. Ending gets friendly again. This track is all over the place. 5) Sweet melody, vocals break into spoken-word at times. 6) Quietest instrumentation, cleanest vocals. Reaching/searching feel. Like a subdued Arcade Fire song. Crazy demented guitar breakdown with ~1min left. ***7) Pixies homage. Quivering early Frank-Black vocals, starts almost jangly guitars, gets more electric. Group-sounding backing vocals. Fun. 8) Bass heavy, strutting guitars, quiet, but explodes at chorus & end. Similar to track 5. 9) Slow, dominant snare drums, borderline alt-country. Beautiful reverb-ed crescendo near end. **10) Most fun vocals here, bouncy. Catchy, sometimes decipherable lyrics. "Call me out. How can I, sing on key?" **11) 2 minutes of Television-style guitars, then gets slower (& relatively more droney) with catchy & angsty vocals. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Just Dreams | 6. | Manitoba | |||
| 2. | The Illiad | 7. | Cowbell | |||
| 3. | Insistor | 8. | 10 Gallon Ascots | |||
| 4. | Crazy Eights | 9. | Omaha | |||
| 5. | In Houston | 10. | Buckle | |||
| 11. | Jakov's Suite | |||||