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Tokyo Police Club recently let loose their stellar track “Hundred Dollar Day” from their album sessions, along with a sentimental video of archival footage of the group. Tokyo Police Club have been kicking for 15 years, and this track never made the cut for their second album “Champ” from 10 years past. TPC have their own distinct sound which has morphed a bit over the years, but it all stays true to their catchy poetic dreamscapes. I don’t really know where I first heard TPC; it wasn’t on the radio and I liked that. It may have been because of a skate video, but I was hooked by their earlier releases.
Friends’ bands and I would cover TPC at house shows or warehouses, and we’d play their tracks in the park at night. From the permanent relevance of “Citizens of Tomorrow” to the pop laden danceability of “Hot Tonight,” TPC have got heart and can do no wrong. “Hundred Dollar Day” takes me back to those house shows and those dilapidated skate bowl warehouses with its emotion driven vocals and persistent rhythm. Tokyo Police Club have released a 10th anniversary 7 inch of “Champ” with “Hundred Dollar Day” included. There are only 500 copies so get your order in if you’re into that cool stuff. For now you can listen to this track, feel some nostalgia or even get into this band if you haven’t already.
-Alyssa Holland
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In conjunction with the announcement, the band has released a never-before-heard track from the album’s sessions with producer Rob Schnapf, “Hundred Dollar Day,” sharing a video made up of archival footage – watch + share it via YouTube. The single will be included in the Champ reissue on 7” vinyl b/w an acoustic version of the album track “Bambi.”
Discussing this unearthed nugget, guitarist/keyboardist Graham Wright stated, “One nice thing about revisiting something ten years after the fact is that you at least have a shot at some perspective. I’m sure that at the time, 23 years old and stressing over our big swing second record, all the hours we spent agonizing over whether or not to put ‘Hundred Dollar Day’ on the record seemed very good and important. But of course now I forget about all of it, and I just hear a damn cool song that brings me happily back to a hell of a time in my life. But then again, if we’d put the song on the record in the first place, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it right now. So maybe we were on to something after all.”
-Alyssa Holland
tokyopoliceclub.com
Songkick
Tumblr
YouTube
ABOUT THE SONG
In conjunction with the announcement, the band has released a never-before-heard track from the album’s sessions with producer Rob Schnapf, “Hundred Dollar Day,” sharing a video made up of archival footage – watch + share it via YouTube. The single will be included in the Champ reissue on 7” vinyl b/w an acoustic version of the album track “Bambi.”
Discussing this unearthed nugget, guitarist/keyboardist Graham Wright stated, “One nice thing about revisiting something ten years after the fact is that you at least have a shot at some perspective. I’m sure that at the time, 23 years old and stressing over our big swing second record, all the hours we spent agonizing over whether or not to put ‘Hundred Dollar Day’ on the record seemed very good and important. But of course now I forget about all of it, and I just hear a damn cool song that brings me happily back to a hell of a time in my life. But then again, if we’d put the song on the record in the first place, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it right now. So maybe we were on to something after all.”
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