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10.0
14713
10.0 |
Subba Cultcha
They manage to hit you straight in the gut but also come from behind to surprise you. It’s like falling in love with eleven different people in half an hour
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8.0
14668
8.0 |
Clash
Like their previous work, ‘Champ’ is a short and sweet affair - but not one to miss or forget
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8.0
14361
8.0 |
musicOMH
A careful marriage of new ideas ventured and old ideas revised, and, as such - despite perhaps running out of steam towards the end - it is an album more than worthy of the attention it will attract
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8.0
14535
8.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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8.0
16475
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
Lyrically imaginative and melodically playful, they’ve delivered an album worthy of success
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8.0
16899
8.0 |
FasterLouder
Champ displays maturity and wisdom beyond their age and beyond their indie–pop peers
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7.6
13270
7.6 |
Pitchfork
The new album is hardly a huge leap from Elephant Shell in most senses, but it does find TPC reaching out, growing more comfortable, and letting loose
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7.5
13770
7.5 |
Beats Per Minute
At moments, it plays like a children’s story book, and if this is the intention of Monks and crew (“I always skip the words because the pictures are so bright and loud”), then they’ve gloriously succeeded
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7.0
13828
7.0 |
PopMatters
Champ is a much more established album than anyone expected out of the Tokyo Police Club camp, and it’s lyrical fostering makes up for the musical commonplaceness
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7.0
13256
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The record works as an enjoyable if not hugely challenging record for the summer by virtue of the bands strongest song-writing effort to date
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7.0
14633
7.0 |
The Digital Fix
Doesn't reinvent the indie wheel, but what it does do is show the countless other bands of their ilk how to do it well
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7.0
14637
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Champ they have rekindled the catchiness and immediacy of their first offering...one that harnesses their ambition and trumps pretty much anything that their emo-ish contemporaries are currently peddling
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7.0
14524
7.0 |
Bowlegs
Tokyo Police Club aren’t pushing down any barriers on this record; this is still throwaway indie pop
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6.0
13752
6.0 |
Prefix
Champ might have its fair share of weak spots (basically the back third), yet it’s another proficient album from one of the more (still) promising young bands around
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6.0
13233
6.0 |
Spin
How can a band with so many ideas make so many songs that leave you feeling the exact same way?
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6.0
13870
6.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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6.0
14046
6.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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5.0
13541
5.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
If you're going to like indie rock for the sake of it being indie, then Champ has your name written all over it. There's nothing supremely bad about this record, but there are no surprises either
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4.0
14872
4.0 |
Q
The lack of variety soon grates. Print edition only
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4.0
16130
4.0 |
State
For now, it seems, they aim to play it safe. It’s a Marmite album; either hail it as a champ or shrug it off as a chump
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