Throughout the course of this summer I have been wrestling with a demon. I just can’t shake this sort of sonic-crush on The Strokes. I don’t know when it started, and it’s most certainly embarrassing, but now that I’ve come clean about it perhaps we can deal with it.
When I read that Tangiers had been dubbed Toronto’s answer to The Strokes, I kind of couldn’t resist. The Family Myth is their first release on Frenchkiss Records, one of my own personal super labels, following two previous albums released on Sonic Unyon.
This new album is less Rolling Stones influenced and fits more neatly into the niche ascribed to our current pantheon of pop. And, while it is true that Tangiers can’t quite escape comparison to The Strokes, or Frenchkissy sound of now-defunct bands the Ex-Models and Frenchkiss today then I’m ready to get on board.
– Emily Villemaire
(Frenchkiss Records)