This is the final installment of this feature, mostly as a way to get a few brief comments in about albums that could very well appear on our Top 30 albums of the year list (fast approaching, whoa!). Some of the below could even land pretty high up…. Kaela Kimura 8Eight8 Somehow, Kaela Kimura’s new…
Lo-fi project Super VHS sure know how to get a lot out of a little. New song “Goodbye My Old Friend” finds VHS teasing a slightly disorienting dance beat to open up the song, before warm keyboard and typically muffled vocals creep in. What really makes “Goodbye My Old Friend” – and most of Super…
OGRE YOU ASSHOLE take note – here’s how you go about embracing soft rock. Shintaro Sakamoto, formerly of long-standing Koenji rock outfit Yura Yura Teikoku, doesn’t half-ass it or treat bongos and saxophones like hats at UNIQLO – dude gives himself over completely to those often maligned sounds, his silky-smooth croon snaking through the feather…
As the year draws to a close, so does Michiyo Honda’s “single a month” project, wherein she released a new single each month (all of which can be had on iTunes). It was a great little experiment responsible for a lot of great music – the light electro-pop of “Just 200 Years In Prison,” the…
Writing mostly about “indie” music – “indie” here being vague, but best summed up as “being relatively under the radar” – leads me to expect a certain type of sound most times I cue up a new band’s song. Again, defining what that style sounds like is ultimately sort of futile but it tends (emphasize…