Watching NITES evolve from an isolated bedroom kid into one of those brain-infiltrators from Inception has been pretty thrilling. The mysterious artist originally sounded like a lot of other folks holed up in their house armed with recording material – his earlier material certainly had some interesting ideas going for it, but it also didn’t…
Second Royal Records seem to be on a little bit of an ugly-recording bender at the moment. Considering the Kyoto label houses Halby’s painfully blueprinted musical vacations, Handsomeboy Technique’s kempt dance songs and Turntable Film’s fragile folk-rock, it’s a little surprising to see them also embracing artist’s who love the sounds of bedroom recording. Hotel…
It’s easy to forget in a world where information buzzes about at the same rate lolcats spill out of the Internet’s tubes, but sometimes turning away from the rush of now can be a swell idea. This seems especially true for those who breathe music blogs – and, of course, those who write them. New…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPAVU89cgg”] I once brushed off Halcali as typical cutesy stupid J-Pop. Based on a very brief listen to the rap-pop duo’s 2010 album…well, the first track of it anyway…I decided I didn’t need to spend any significant time with this. Then a funny thing happened – karaoke. Two friends sang an endearingly goofy Japanese track…
Not a lot happens over the course of “大停電の夜に’s” six minutes. The members of cero show no signs of being in rush, sprawling out and letting the waves of guitar simply hover along save for a few light solo stretches late in the song. This isn’t the musical equivalent of wasting a Saturday afternoon burning…