About one year ago, the mysterious lo-fi artist She Talks Silence released her debut album Noise & Novels, a monochromatic sonic snapshot of solitude that ended up being our favorite record of 2010. Needless to say, we now wait anxiously giddy like kids on December 20 for the arrival of her follow-up, the six-track Some…
Michiyo Honda’s “single a month” plan for 2011 marches on, this time triumphantly towards the Kansai region of Japan courtesy of “Chonmage Disco Goes West.” The title deceives a little bit – this isn’t particularly disco-ish, more like slightly funky electro-pop with some goofy retro synths added in. Though “Chonmage” does boast some cheesy stuff…
The zanily-upper-cased joyEL7 don’t hide their influences very well. Besides sprinkling the name of the band that inspired them all over their MySpace like oh so many sparkly GIF files, the opening seconds of any of their songs sonically ask “hey, remember that first Arctic Monkey’s album? And a lil’ of the second one?” This…
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/24387158 w=400&h=225] JESSE RUINS – SOFIJA directed by Tim O’Sullivan from Hidden Horizons on Vimeo. So what exactly is the policy on spoilers when it comes to music videos? There has to be some sort of document out there outlining what to do, yeah? Well, I’m not going to give away much of anything…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsKb38VDtV0″] I had grand visions for this feature, but now I sleep so little that any chance to get some rest trumps writing too many words about a band I’ve already covered before. So yeah…here is an article about Gellers for The Japan Times. Read it, and enjoy the above song (a grower, for sure)….