Songs We Love: Nick Lowe, 'Tokyo Bay'
The tongue-in-cheek ode to urban blight features Nick Lowe back in rockabilly mode, featuring Los Straitjackets.
Nail down the lawn furniture, is rocking out again, with the rumbling rockabilly of "Tokyo Bay" from the EP. The man who blazed trails in pub-rock, punk, new-wave, and power-pop has spent the last couple of decades operating chiefly in crooner mode. But hooking up with postmodern over the last couple of years seems to have helped edge him back toward turning things up again.
