Forget telephones – this sounds like fax machines getting drunk and invading a bounce house. Kyoto whizz-kid MADEGG’s latest upload brings up all the same words I’ve already spat onto this WordPress page before – imagine the word “space” repeated on loop, complete with semi-creepy vocal sample. What’s slightly different here is how buzzing MADEGG’s…
It’s super tempting to call Tokyo artist ELEN NEVER SLEEPS “shoegaze,” mainly because dude offered the world a cover of My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep.” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2OuzjMp4Ws”] ELEN NEVER SLEEPS certainly boasts characteristics of that sound, but even his take on the Loveless classic reveals something a bit more complex. There are traces of “hipster…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYfB2cXdJGg”] For a preview clocking in at under two-minutes, Schloder sure manage to wring a whole lot out of “Electro Words” in an extremely short amount of time. This jumps from Queen-aping stadium-rock (the vocals) to U2 life affirming guitar workouts to an overly giddy chorus you’d expect from any number of young Japanese-based indie…
A few days ago Second Royal Records posted all of the tracks to Friends’ debut album Let’s Get Together Again to SoundCloud. It will be released as a 10″ record in September in Japan, but can (and should!) be enjoyed right now. Needless to say, more on this one later.
Less of a sequel and rather more of the same thing shot at a different angle and on more blockbuster-friendly film, Moscow Club’s “Daisy Miller Pt. 2” emerges from the ether of “Pt. 1” no longer in a dream state but ready to get stuff done. The tempo quickens, the guitars get the haze scraped…