The Tah-Dahs
Issue #26
Le Fun (Undeniable)
By Anna Breshears
Published: December 1st, 2005 | 3:57pm
There’s always room in the universe for another album’s worth of solid power-pop tunes, and Dallas, Texas, threesome the Tah-Dahs provide more clean riffs and love-strewn verses than you can shake a 20/20 record at. Le Fun’s short, punchy tunes are exactly what you’d expect from a record named for a chain of video arcades.
The band takes a barebones approach to instrumentation, and though they add a few extra touches here and there (like the bells and horns on “Alcoholic”), the economical guitar-drums-bass combo drives Le Fun’s genial rhythms and sing-song choruses. The Tah-Dahs’ approach to songwriting is equally straightforward: they wisely avoid over-intellectualizing and their lyrics are either boy-loves-girl stories (“Chix,” “Mix Tape = Love”) or snarky takes on hipsters (“The Cute Band”) and music snobs (“The Clap”). Occasionally, the band breaks out of jangle mode and turns up the rock, as in the rollicking bridge of “Huge Eyes and Ha-Ha’s” and on the punky “John and Yoko and Ted and Alice.”
Le Fun isn’t the best record you’ll hear all year, but the Tah-Dahs’ concise, three-minute pop arrangements are highly entertaining, making it the perfect soundtrack for a pinball marathon.
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