Tokyo Police Club are breaking up, but before they say peace out for good (or for two months, if they’re anything like Dead and Co., LCD Soundsystem, etc.—or, otherwise, 10 years when a major music fest throws them enough money), they’ve shared two new tracks and will be hitting the road for one last run. The band initially said bye bye at the beginning of the year—helluva way to kick off 2024, guys—by announcing a Toronto show in November, but that gig has since been revealed to be part of a bigger North American jaunt.
To mourn the long goodbye, the band has shared two new singles, “Just a Scratch” and “Catch Me If You Can.” Alongside the tracks come some lengthy statements from multiple members. “Even in demo form,” keyboardist Graham Wright said, “even before we knew they’d be our last releases as TPC, the songs felt summative to me, full of everything that made me fall in love with this band in the first place. I hear bits that we might have come up with in the garage back then, and other bits we could never have dreamed up until right now. I hear all the music we ever loved and all the music we ever made—and most importantly, I hear us, the four of us, the hivemind that is TPC, with all its ideas and enthusiasm.”
Frontman Dave Monks added: “I remember Graham sending me a drive folder full of instrumental loops and blips, and song tidbits, and digging through it like a treasure box. Dragging things into ProTools and moving them around in different ways, it’s something fun we had messed around with before on ‘La Ferrassie’ and ‘Feel the Effect.’ That’s why ‘Catch Me If You Can’ has the drums dropping out a bunch of times in it; that was just part of the loop Graham sent, and I love how it adds to the arrangement in a way we wouldn’t naturally have come up with.”
Check out both singles below, and view the band’s tour dates here.
