Athlete - 'Tokyo'

by Robert Livingston
Friday, November 16, 2007

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Despite the ubiquity of 'Wires' in 2005, the lack of excitement over their third album 'Beyond The Neighbourhood' suggests that those compiling the history this decade's pop music won't be keeping too many pages aside for Athlete. 'Tokyo' is a fairly typical example of their oeuvre: pleasant enough electronic-tinged indie with a pounding chorus, identifiable only by Joel Pott's slightly grating bending-up-to-the-last-note-of-each-line.

And it's the pleasantness that may prove to be their undoing – in an era when the pop colossi of Doherty and Winehouse bestride the front pages, penning a few nice tunes and being thoroughly good eggs was never going to cut the mustard. A Shed Seven for the Naughties, anyone?

Released 19/11/07 on Parlophone.

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Bollocks. This single is up there with so many of other tunes around at the moment. I think it’s a massive step forward from the last album and live it’s even better.
~ by Michael Miguel 11/19/2007
It sounds like most critics just listened the album once and decided since the first critic didn’t like it, they won’t like it either. The fact is this album (Beyond the Neighbourhood) is an excellent 3rd album, of which Tokyo also happens to be one of the better songs.
~ by Mark Hutchinson 4/2/2008