[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eExLCyMR4eI&hl=en_US&fs=1&] J-Rock heavyweights Bump Of Chicken have a new single out, and it isn’t shy about telling you how to feel about it. “Happy” (featured above, ripped from some radio station I guess), follows last year’s surprisingly great “R.I.P.,” a song that managed to turn subdued guitar playing into a sweetly nostalgic bit of music…
Wither the folks outside of Japan right now, because it’s Sakura season. For a very short period of time, the cherry blossoms around the country have bloomed into a very delicate and pretty white. It makes the bike ride to work a bit more tolerable. The folks at the Coca-Cola corporation want you to enjoy…
Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
For the most part, I’m not a big fan of Salyu. Listening to a smattering of songs off her recently released album Maiden Voyage left me pretty unimpressed. A few interesting production ideas here and there (peep the stripped down march of “HALFWAY”), but for the most part straightforward vegan vanilla flavored J-Pop anchored by…
Those lovely scamps pitching Aflac insurance return once again. This time, to cheer up some poor soul forced to work the night shift at a company. Who says soul-crushing office work can’t be cute? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJp_vj0K6c&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] (Via Japan Probe)