Vinyl Record
Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield
Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield on LP vinyl. A 2014 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2014
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2014 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Forcefield is Tokyo Police Club in 2014 stretching against the reputation they built on short, wiry songs. The album begins with Argentina, an eight-minute suite stitched from several ideas, and that opening alone announces a band interested in testing its own reflexes. The familiar ingredients are still there: Dave Monks' high, urgent vocal line, Josh Hook's guitar snap, Graham Wright's melodic keyboard color and Greg Alsop's propulsive drumming. But the songs give themselves more room. Hot Tonight leans into a clean, almost power-pop immediacy, Miserable is bright enough to hide its title's mood, Toy Guns and Tunnel Vision keep the band's rhythmic bite, and Beaches closes with a bigger emotional horizon than early Tokyo Police Club would have allowed. Forcefield is not the debut's miniature architecture; it is a third album about trust, scale and a band deciding that concision is a tool, not a cage.
It matters because Forcefield showed Tokyo Police Club could expand without losing their recognizable nervous pulse. Argentina in particular reframed expectations, while Hot Tonight gave the album a direct pop-rock doorway into the band's more mature phase.
For collectors, Forcefield is the album that tests the band's range after Champ. It is valuable for anyone following how a compact indie-rock group handled longer forms, cleaner production and more openly anthemic writing in the mid-2010s.
Indie rock and power pop with longer structures, bright guitars, synth accents, driving drums, earnest choruses, quick lyrical turns and a wider emotional field than the band's earliest records.
Recommended for: Collectors following Tokyo Police Club beyond the early breakthrough; Fans of Argentina, Hot Tonight and Beaches; Listeners who enjoy indie bands stretching into bigger pop-rock shapes.
When was Forcefield released? Forcefield was released in 2014 as Tokyo Police Club's third studio album. Why is Argentina important? Argentina opens the album as an extended suite, showing the band deliberately moving beyond its usual short-song format. Does Forcefield still sound like Tokyo Police Club? Yes. It keeps the band's bright hooks and nervous rhythm, but the songs are broader and more polished.