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Walk It Off
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Tapes N’ Tapes sophomore album, Walk It Off, is like a joke with no punch line. You spend most of the 12 tracks waiting for it to hit you, particularly given the expectations put in place by their glowing debut, The Loon, but, it just never happens. It’s not that the album isn’t full of foot-tapping fun or that it’s insulting or even pretentious. Walk It Off’s singular crime is that it’s boring. It has its high points, certainly, like the upbeat “Lines” with its clever and exciting compositional build, but, at best, the track could be a bad song on The Loon, unable to compensate for the innocuousness of the other 10 or so songs that fail to deliver. Beyond the albums largely lackluster energy, unremarkable ditties like “Hang Them All” are just plain repetitive and others, like the drab “Conquest” sounds more like theme music meant for a trip to the grocery store rather than some epic subjugation. All in all, the albums main snag is that it’s a pop-rock record without any hooks. There’s not a single catchy chorus to speak over the course of its laborious 45 minutes and, by consequence, the tracks slide away without so much as a lingering note. (XL Recordings)
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