NITES seems to be hitting his stride. His last new song, “Carcass Of The Sun,” marked a huge turning point for the bedroom recorder – a bright-light sheen replacing his once lonely recordings, the song eventually erupting into something that sounded like NITES trying to blow up the Earth. New track “It Is An Excuse…
Earlier this year, Los Angeles musician Baths released a song called “Aminals” into the wilds of the music world. The track stands out in a year featuring an RSS-feed-worth of artists’ mining the sounds of their youth (read: the 80s) for cheap nostalgia. “Aminals” isn’t a tossed-off slab of irony-cloaked pop, but rather a labored-over…
Plenty of bands all over Japan try to mimic the Brit-rock sound that dominated the entirety of the Oughts and still sorta do. It’s a very vague style, probably best summed up as “trying to sound like that first Bloc Party album” featuring mainly guitars, though a few brave souls dragged synths into the mix…
Writing about Avengers In Sci-Fi rules because I get to break out (does blast-off work there?) all sorts of space jokes and it’s OK because the band seem to have no problem sounding as intergalactic as possible. The group just released a new album, Dynamo, last week and have put up a sample of track…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNIsBHfCQkI”] The song itself is pretty good – a mostly laid-back rock number sung in mumbles before sorta cresting at the chorus. Solid enough if not something you’ll remember next week. What is memorable about Osaka band Buzzu’s new song “明朝” is actually the video, in which some dudes dress up in panda costumes and…