Review: Tokyo Police Club @ Troubadour

7/25/7, Los Angeles: Playing L.A. for only the second time (unless you count Coachella), Canada's Tokyo Police Club (because it sounds so much cooler than "Toronto Police Club" or "Medicine Hat Police Club") seemed to be in a big hurry Wednesday night at the sold out Troubadour. With only a handful of singles and one EP consisting of 7 under-three-minute songs, TPC doesn't have a whole lot of material, but playing every song in double-time shortened their set to only about 40 minutes. Their one-song encore was a half-assed cover (their first ever played live, apparently) of The Rentals' smoking "Friends of P," which they ironically slowed to a crawl -- removing most of the song's catchy fun in the process. The youthful quartet has energy to spare, and are more ambitious than many of their dance-rock-inspired contemporaries, but they may be getting too big too fast.