Fair warning: Osaka’s Oshiripenpenz aren’t making “accessible” music. They also aren’t even really experimenting nor trying to push the boundaries of their sound as far as it can go as the recently discussed Praha Depart. That group does some pretty strange stuff but seem to have a goal. Oshiripenpenz just sort of fuck around and…
Moving at an appropriately frosted-over speed, Killing Boy’s “Frozen Music” lingers around so long it’s easy to slap one of the bigger critical cop-outs on it and just call it “boring.” This isn’t fair for two reasons – first off, it’s their song “Call 4 U” which really deserves that label, a meandering number where…
Musical supergroups usually end up the butt of jokes – remember the way 40-Year-Old Virgin treated Asia? – so take If By Yes with a little caution. Yet this one does have some real potential to tread above Judd Apatow punchlines, featuring Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto, Araki Yuko of The Cornelius Group, Shimizu Hirotaka…
It has been a long time since we first wrote about the twee-tastically named Three-Weeks-Old-Lovesick Puppy. Now about a year and a half later she’s gone and released her first mini-album, the adorably titled Tickle Tickle. This six-tack album features a few new songs and some re-recorded versions of old Puppy tracks like the Three-Berry-Ice-Cream-evoking…
Everything I wrote about CUSTOM NOISE earlier in the week basically applies to Sorrys!, so read that to get a general idea of what these guys are up to. I’m not trying to be lazy as much as I’m making peace with the fact a lot of Japanese bands releasing noteworthy music in 2011 all…