Tokyo Police Club's signature sound, the niche that they carved out for themselves in a constantly fluctuating music scene (an emphasis on rhythm and abstract, maze - like lyrics with real emotion at their center) is
almost completely gone, replaced by a rabid
pop sensibility that sometimes works and sometimes really, really doesn't.
Over the course of his career, Pettibone employed the aesthetic language of
Pop art and its propensity for appropriation with an
almost absurdist, Dada
sensibility akin to that which underlies Duchamp's works.