Cafe Eleven

   Tapes ‘n Tapes’ signature sound is distinctly their own concoction; the shaky vocals, the bursts of low-fi guitars and the haunting keyboard refrains. Whether it is on the opening track, “Le Ruse,” where the first thing you hear is one guitar, crackling like the amp might short-circuit or the last, on the swaggering, “The Dirty Dirty,” with its driving guitar and unrelenting rhythm, the band continue to hone their own brand of jittery rock that has found the sweet spot where experimental song structure meets melodic accessibility.