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"I have high, high hopes for this band, and I think they are about the break in a big way. And they deserve it too! I listen to a lot of music, and quite honestly I’ve never come across anything like TANAOU. Their music feels like an extension of self, it’s melodic and sprawling, but never pretentious nor overstated. Their songs feel like warm evenings with old friends, it’s that comfortable feeling that sits above your stomach whenever you feel happy and contented… It’s unfinished, but infinitely beautiful movie scripts with characters and landscapes bright beyond reality. It’s film noir with rainy, dark corners and lost loves. It’s everything. From the get-go this band reached under my skin, and it surprised me. So I’ve let it be, wondering if it would pass, if it was just saccharine infatuation with melodies and relatable lyrics, but no, it just grows. It especially grows when I listen to the double vinyl LP - if ever there was a band made for vinyl (and a decent sound system! In fact… I must put side c on now…) Ultimately it’s hard to explain the many differing layers contained in their album “Best Loved Goodnight Tales” - It can go from the soaring melodies of 45 Forever, to the introspection of “Medicine”. Personally, and perhaps I am on the verge of gushing here, I think it’s one of the best albums I’ve heard in years. Yes, I can’t believe I’ve said that either." - MUSICALUBIQUITY

"Sublime pop, can't fault it really, classic construction, swoops and dives past verse chorus and middle 8. "Make your record bag your family home", can't argue with that. And I agree, 45s forever, the single is the essence of pop, as is this single" - ARTROCKER

"Back to the Lake Stage for a band who when they’re shuffling about pre-gig look disorganised and nervous as hell, but who go on to blow the rest of the congregation out of the water and deliver the set of the day. Northampton’s The All New Adventures Of Us play an uplifting, life affirming brand of indie rock that draws few comparisons. Sunday’s headliners come close, but there’s a lyrical self awareness and sense of fun that Arcade Fire just don’t have. That’s demonstrated on songs like “Medicine”, but they can do huge anthems too, like opener “St Crispins” and show stopping “45 Forever.” If this band aren’t big news in the not too distant future, this writer will eat a hat the size of the Latitude campsite." - Tom Goodwyn LATITUDEFESTIVAL.COM

The All New Adventures Of Us or ‘TANAOU’ for short, are gaining critical acclaim and already appear to have a strong underground following, and they deserve it, because it’s damn good. It’s a perfect meshing of folk, pop and indie that totally deserves your attention. To explain the seven-piece in a little more detail, they hail from the Midlands and sound like Arcade Fire and Death Cab For Cutie slammed together, but proudly British. And it’s utterly uplifting, even from the first listen it’s like a sudden awakening, why haven’t I heard this band before? Why aren’t they already pushing the boundaries of the mainstream? The politics of the music industry aside, ‘TANAOU’ have managed to craft something almost out of this world. Whilst many indie bands will try again and again to remind you how dull and shit life is, this band seem to aim to take you away from it all. Utter, ethereal escapism. But yet giving us a subtle insight into middle-English life. The second track is stronger than the first, but when both are just great folk-pop songs it hardly matters. One of the great things about the two tracks is that there are so many things going on in them, and yet it never gets convoluted. Lines like “When you grow up, your heart dies” are made all the more meaningful by wonderful vocals and great arrangements. It ends up being a perfect example of great song writing. If there’s any justice, ‘The All New Adventures Of Us’ will get their just rewards this year, and they should be part of everyone’s summer soundtrack. This taster was more than enough to send me searching for more tracks; I strongly suggest you do the same.

Glasswork.co.uk

"Northampton's Tanaou (or The All-New Adventures Of Us in long-hand) are easily one of the most exciting indie bands in Britain right now. While they have a similar delicacy as Straylight Run, there really isn't anyone in the UK who sounds like them. The six-pieces debut EP shifts moods with abandon; the pianos and guitars chime, reinforced with violin trills and boy/girl vocals, building upwards. Sometimes as on 'My Summer Satire' and 'Scenes From The Passion', the songs erupt. At others ('The History Of A Nation'), they are allowed to rove away into the wilderness. Tanaou are charmingly unpredictable, unravelling soul-bearing lyrics and paeans to love. They're literate but not over-indulgent. They're intelligent but not arrogant. They're brilliant and they're British. It's time to welcome Tanaou into your life as the perfect antodote to the Libertines/Franz Ferdinand-inspired apathy" - Mike Haydock - ROCKSOUND

St Crispin's Got Our Backs / The Art Of The High Five Single Review Think of every instrument that you can and this band uses it, in short glockenspiels, casiotones, mandolins, organs and a new style instrument that you may not know oh yeah that's it a guitar. So it is not surprising that there is a mere seven people in the band that are known as The All New Adventures Of Us. (For those lazy reviewers they are known as TANAOU) St Crispin's Got Our Backs and The Art Of The High Five is the debut double 'A' side single. Not only is this a double 'A' side, but the download release date and the physical release date shows how far we have come since tape single releases. The All New Adventures Of Us are one of the bands to benefit from being a part of the Electric Proms. With St Crispin's Got Our Backs there was no need to sell it as a double 'A' side. This song says it all, dual vocals in the way of female and male, and although there is so much going on with the actual music, the lyrics are just black and white. So have The All New Adventures missed out on a trick here? Could they of actually have had two singles under their belt? The Art Of The High Five is the second part of the double 'A' side. The one thing about The All New Adventures Of Us is you will spend so much time trying to figure out what is going on with the music, that you will miss the lyrics. These are like a complicated film that you will need four or five listens and each time you will pick something else up. The All New Adventures Of Us are a really exciting prospect and hold that something else, that something more, just something different. There could be massive times ahead for the seven that is The All New Adventures Of Us. Mark Moore Contactmusic.com

"Northampton is not traditionally associated with hook-laden, anthemic indie-pop, but it could very well be that this is about to change. The reason for this is unpretentious seven piece The All New Adventures of Us, or Tanaou to their friends. These Songs Are Our Only Alibis is twenty five minutes of piano-led, string-tinged, singalong-worthy, laidback rock.
The first thing that becomes apparent with opener My Summer Satire is that - blessedly - these are a band apparently unburdened by their failure to be born in the US; the vocals are unashamedly and refreshingly English. The second is that the only thought running through the Tanaou collective mind is 'melody, melody, melody'. Be it vocal, piano, guitar, strings or something else entirely, there is barely a moment when this EP is not without an eminently hummable hook.
The male/female vocals, combined with the occasional folky moment, permit comparisons to latter day Seafood, but the explosive chorus of Time For A Change turn thoughts towards more rock-oriented outfits; imagine if Jenny Reeve of Eva and the Reindeer Section recorded with 100 Broken Window-era Idlewild in their These Wooden Ideas moments.
History of a Nation is a work of some not inconsiderable beauty, and articulate with it; the lyrics alone are enough to suggest that Tanaou may have the creative invention required to sustain an output of some longevity. Strings wind elegantly around a strong rhythym section, piano and sparingly-used guitar ice the cake; the only disappointment comes when this song ends.
With a full length album due this summer, Tanaou could well be the surprise act of 2005, but in the interim you would do well to have These Songs Are Our Only Alibis on your stereo whenever you need a burst of sunny aural pleasure." - Alternativenation.net

"This has a sweeping, majestic quality about it that is all it's own, a masterclass in strident songwriting" - Big Cheese Magazine

"a portrait of honesty framed by 5 corners of understanding, the sum of these parts perform time travel on tape, hurling me back to the first time i was played Elliott's 'False Cathedrals' or 'Your Majesty' by The Anniversary... ...rarely on a record of this kind do you hear, or indeed feel, a collective pull from all quarters towards the same goal - to tell a story through song. No hidden agenda, simply to explain. And in poetry cooed in the sweetest of contexts, explainations are what Tanaou stands for" - Sammie Cain

"the best bits of all your favourite every-genre bands and more. Really beautiful songs." - Apoplectic.org

"Everything about this record is amazing - the art, the production, the level of musicianship, the lyrics...I could go on. I don't know what the future holds for Tanaou, I don't know if they'll ever make another album or whether this will get the press and publicity it deserves. But one thing I do know is that this is perhaps the most gorgeous piece of art I've heard all year. " - Punktastic.com