Tokyo Police Club Are Halfway Through Recording New Album

Toronto darlings Tokyo Police Club are roughly halfway through recording their new album.

"Since my last missive, we've spent a good eight days in the studio," keyboardist/vocalist Graham Wright wrote in a recent post on the band's website. "The first five or six were spent recording the drums, which is always the hardest part. Poor Greg [Alsop] was put through the paces like a regular pack mule, but he was able to come out with some spectacular drum performances, which a pack mule would never have pulled off."

Wright adds that bass and keyboard tracks were then added and "we started just putting random things on random songs when we felt like it." He's quite happy with the results so far.

"If I had to guess, I'd say we're around halfway done. And I'm pleased to report that everything is sounding wicked. I'm told that we're now using every single microphone cable in the whole building, but we're getting results!"

Wright revealed that a new track entitled "Tesselate" was the most difficult song the band has recorded thus far, but they finally nailed it.

"Everyone keeps saying it kicks ass, which is encouraging. It has a catchy keyboard riff written by Dave [Monks], and a boring keyboard riff written by me. But if anyone asks, I did it all because I'm great."

There's no word on when the group expect to have the songs completed for release.