New Michiyo Honda: “Just 200 Years In Prison”

If this is what prison sounds like, sign me up! (Note, don’t sign me up) Michiyo Honda steps away from the dance-centric side she’s been exploring on her last few monthly singles, this time opting for feather-floaty easy-breeziness. Honda constructs an aural hammock using electro-bleeps alongside some keyboard, her voice pitched to be just as…

This Isn’t Floating: Float Down The Liffey’s Breath EP

Man, shoegaze has got it rough nowadays. Since we haven’t reached the point where a revival in that sorta stuff is appropriate yet, anything labelled as “shoegazey” or “dreamy” tends to get ignored or smacked down the same way boring “indie” rock is. Yet Foster The People don’t get a Tumblr devoted to how shitty…

New Madegg: Crawl EP

Kyoto’s Madegg dropped another EP over the weekend, the quickie Crawl EP. It’s a just-under ten minute collection of the youngin’ doing what he does best, which is roll up the universe into a cosmic joint and blast off. The highlight is the at-times-ambient cell splitting of “Fallen Color,” a song imagining what would happen…

Love And Hates Prep An Album, Seemingly Cover That One Song From The Muppet Show

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpYS1VElGoc”] It still amazes me that my introduction to HNC and Moe (of Miila And The Geeks) was through their twee-crunk project Love And Hates. Back in the halcyon days of 2009, I never would have guessed the two women rapping over cat noises while wearing mis-matched leg warmers and what might have been Burger…