Pitchfork Forkcast: Premiere: Tokyo Police Club: "Your English Is Good" [Video]

Premiere: Tokyo Police Club: "Your English Is Good" [Video]

I don't know where Tokyo Police Club vacation, but I'm totally gonna be there. The only constabulary Western rockers even less Tokyo-related than Fujiya & Miyagi, TPC find some swell locales for watching cool, unaffected kids frolic in this clip. The video's for "Your English Is Good", a new single that sees Tokyo Police Club turning up their catchy multi-voice shouts and "Lust for Life"-lusting rhythm section for a touch of uncertain romance. Funny how some bands can sound like the Strokes, when the Strokes were supposed to be so derivative-- though these guys still add their own impetuous youthfulness.

According to director Blair Young at Forest of Black, the video was filmed on a 1970s-vintage Russian camera mostly around Loch Lomond, north of Glasgow, though the beaches were on the Mull of Kintyre (ask, ask Paul McCartney). The kids are real friends from New Zealand. They just mostly run around the countryside and the dunes, climbing trees and having fun, as singer David Monks sings, "You don't need to change," and the ringing guitars swell. Which is pretty swell. "The video was kind of a 'don't let our youth go to waste' statement," Young says, noting he was inspired by the closing scene of Richard Linklater's Slacker.

[from the "Your English Is Good" single; due 7/9/07 in the UK on Memphis Industries, 7/10/07 in the U.S. on Team 8]

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