Post Modern Team could play this trick, one a lot of indie-pop bands are capable of but which happened to be one the Osaka group did better than most in Japan. From the opening notes of career-highlight “Never Let You Down” and onward, they could make even the hint of wistfulness sound happy, especially when…
Island… builds off of the song of the same name that Ryoma Sakoh released earlier this year. That song created a soft, billowy soundtrack to an imagined archipelago, and the new full-length builds on that theme explicitly, with Sakoh himself writing that this is “memories spent on fictitious islands.” The bulk of the album builds…
Trekkie Trax stays busy in the last few months of 2017. Fresh off a great compilation with Good Enuff, the label announced their next release…and it is a heavy hitter. Carpainter will put out a new album titled Returning on December 6, and ahead of that Trekkie Trax shared the title track. Unlike the shambling…
(This one has an official video, but it won’t play outside of Japan…where I am now. So this is how you guys feel all the time, huh?) Tokyo indie-pop band For Tracy Hyde have tightened up over the years. Initially a vessel for Sarah Records-indebted guitar chug mixed with experiments in chillwave, the group now…
I’ve been feeling out of it for a while now. Initially, I thought it was because I caught a cold on a trip, and all that NyQuil is bound to shoot anyone into a haze. Yet it dawned on me this has been more like a month long malaise, one where I constantly find myself…