CD Review: Tapes 'N Tapes, Walk It Off
May 13, 2008 1:45 PM John Brandon (Writer)
Lo-fi guitar rockers Tapes
'N Tapes get the funk on with their sophomore outing, Walk It Off. They are the Napoleon Dynamites of the genre:
garage-rock kids who channel Pavement while outplaying them musically.
"Hang Them All" has spacey and furious keys, droning low-slung bass
and some of Josh Grier's most mesmerizing guitar work. On the closer, "The
Dirty Dirty," the group conjures up a weird faux pas–sounding techno
algorithm. It's anemic, groovy and blistering all at the same time. Tapes is
going to cherry-pick fans from Death Cab and Spoon. This album is an early pick
for best of the year.
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