New Tapes 'N Tapes Video - "Hang Them All"
We didn't like Tapes 'N Tapes' Walk If Off very much. To quote:
Here/there, they're basically a hodgepodge of various groups -- you hear a little Modest Mouse (everywhere), or Pixies ("Blunt"), or that band you can't quite remember right now (everywhere), or Pavement. In these moments, it's like you asked someone to define "indie rock," and they opted to jumble together an assemblage of folks who did it better.
One of the few decent tracks "Hang Them All" just received video accompaniment, so snap together your cardboard rifle and head down to the 99¢ and 98¢ stores.
Cute video. Did you catch the Tapes 'N Tapes kitty litter? If you're keeping score at home of who they sound like on each track: This is their Modest Mouse-y Wolf Parade jam, a Dan song that would fall in the middle of the record. For folks outside the US: The second we find a YouTube embed, it's up.
Walk It Off is out on XL.
Posted at 5:01 PM in Video
Tags: Tapes 'N Tapes
Give us a break, Stereogum. The new album is solid- and your commentary is tired. Saying that this is a weak retread of other indie rock music is similar to if someone commented that "Videogum" is a sad attempt to mirror Pitchfork's move into a "TV" venture. Which it is.
Posted by: adam at April 29, 2008 7:01 PM | ReplyScore = 0
You think this album is "solid"? Wow...
Posted by: TDS in reply to adam's comment at April 29, 2008 9:11 PM | ReplyScore = -1
Yes, I do. I wouldn't argue that it is better than The Loon, but to act like it's a total throwaway album is completely unfair. If you loved that first album, but think this one is bad, it's probably your own tastes that have changed, since this isn't some kind of weird departure.
Posted by: adam in reply to TDS's comment at April 30, 2008 10:45 AM | ReplyScore = 1
it's pretty obvious you don't have a clue. i can't wait for days, months, or years from now when you have to eat your words and say this album is good.
Posted by: mikey at April 29, 2008 7:10 PM | Replythis video is awesome too.
Score = 0
If you think that people are going to easily remember this album, or tapes n tapes, in a few years, you are kidding yourself.
Posted by: Grand at April 29, 2008 7:41 PM | ReplyScore = 1
Clell Tickle will make them remember. And if they don't, he'll give them a Colombian Necktie.
Posted by: kidacomputerok in reply to Grand's comment at April 29, 2008 9:56 PM | ReplyScore = 1
i saw them on this latest tour. the supporting band, White Denim, blew them off the stage
Posted by: Jim at April 29, 2008 8:57 PM | ReplyScore = -1
I so wanted this album to be good, but it goes beyond the Sophomore Slump and right into the Sophomore Coma.
Posted by: Chris at April 30, 2008 2:02 PM | ReplyScore = 1
Have you people forgotten what rock music sounds like? Have your ears been so damaged by the knob-twiddling, mock-retarded campfire singalongs of Animal COllective et al and cokehead/fashionplate Crystal Castles/fuck buttons bullshit that you can't hear what a solid rock n roll album sounds like? Its fucking sad that a really great, unpretentious rock band like tapes 'n tapes can't get a fair shake from you lemmings.
Posted by: s at April 30, 2008 2:26 PM | ReplyScore = 1
Have you people forgotten what rock music sounds like? Have your ears been so damaged by the knob-twiddling, mock-retarded campfire singalongs of Animal COllective et al and cokehead/fashionplate Crystal Castles/fuck buttons bullshit that you can't hear what a solid rock n roll album sounds like? Its fucking sad that a really great, unpretentious rock band like tapes 'n tapes can't get a fair shake from you lemmings.
Posted by: s at April 30, 2008 2:28 PM | ReplyScore = 1
Calling this a rock album is the funniest thing I've read on Stereogum in a long long time.
Posted by: Jack at April 30, 2008 4:32 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Are Tapes n' Tapes ripping off Justice, or is it the other way around?
Posted by: Double Crown Records at May 4, 2008 12:27 PM | ReplyScore = 0