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Toyko Police Club - Cheer It On (Memphis Industries)

UK release date: 5 February 2007

The second single from Tokyo Police Club’s first album, A Lesson In Crime, is pop in its rawest form that beings with a shouty emergency phonecall and then breaks into an absurd short love song, whose lyrics gave this incarnation of the band its name, punctuated by keyboards that remind me of the Bontempi organ I was given at the age of 6 (although to be fair they play it rather better than I ever did).

The band is actually Canadian, though not a collective as seems to be the current fashion (just a quartet). The b-side, Citizens of Tomorrow (Space Ballad Version), is quieter, the vocals suitably mechanical over piano chords, a warning of the dangers of being enslaved by robots in 2009.

Think Mercury Rev or Flaming Lips with lines like: "I have a microchip implanted in my heart, so if I try to escape the robots will blow me apart."

- Fiona Jerome

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