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New Cloudy Busey: “I’m Afraid To Live In Tokyo”
Continuing on the theme of “Tokyo…weird place to live,” Osaka’s Cloudy Busey sounds afraid to live in Tokyo on “I’m Afraid To Live In Tokyo.” The song nails an anxiousness about moving to…well, it could apply to any massive city, between the cost of everything and fear of natural disasters. The milestone here? This is…
New Amunoa: Rusty Door
Not everything has to be in a rush. Producer Amunoa’s Rusty Door finds the Trekkie Trax affiliate taking things a little bit easier — or at least just turning the tempo down — with their sliced-up-vocal approach to dance music. Opener “Laser Lips” features a steady trickle of stuttering syllables, but Amunoa chooses to let…
New Poor Vacation: F/E/E/L/S
One of my favorite things is when an artist refuses to leave a song alone. I like seeing artists poke at their creations in an effort to find new angles to them — see Spange Call Lilli Line’s multiple versions of “Rio” or even Radiohead’s long-time-to-release “True Love Waits,” to name just a couple. Tokyo’s…
New Wallflower: “I Wish Spring Would Last Forever”
It’s somewhat startling to realize Osaka indie-pop band Wallflower haven’t released a proper album yet. They’ve become one of the cornerstones of that city’s twee-tastic community, and have put out various singles, EP and — that classic curveball — the mini album over the last few years. But now comes a real first album, set…
Yeh Yeh Yeh: GeGeGe
We’ve been on a bit of an indie-pop kick this week, so let’s keep it up with Kanazawa outfit GeGeGe, who will be releasing an EP via Dead Funny Records early in February. They’ve shared two tracks from it, and they are a nice mix of jogging, Wild-Nothing-inspired rock and a sparser electronic mumbler that…
Cornelius Soundtracks A Muji Ad, Makes Commercials Cool As Hell
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4cDnjt88_8″] A more cynical person would hear that Cornelius offered up the music for a new Muji company commercial and say “what a sellout.” Thankfully its 2010 and the concept of selling out via ad opportunities went away long ago unless you are in high school or something, but to this imaginary naysayer I raise…
