Look, I’ll be honest with you…CustomMummy caught my attention because the duo seem to perform live while wearing some incredibly creepy cat masks. Just browse the duo’s MySpace and look at the various pictures showing them hunched behind tables while wearing unsettling feline faces pulled from a 70s grindhouse movie…about cat murderers or something. CustomMummy,…
Another day, another lo-fi artist (read: dude who can’t afford studio time) making fuzzy rock songs that are way better than they have any right to be. She, hailing from Gifu prefecture, makes static-ey songs where the vocals get completely swamped by feedback to the point of being barely there. Sometimes this formula fails…see “Sun…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pPcaLhBjxQ&feature”] Indie kids take note…THIS is how you do 90’s punk-pop. Though I could live without Sand Beach Surf Coaster’s Rocket Power-ish imagery – aren’t there enough songs about the beach already?…everything else drips with California punk-pop perfection. Guitars drive ahead on only a few chords, making no room for cutesy stuff. Simple but effective…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1YM40U2Fc&”] Live, OGRE YOU ASSHOLE pummel audiences with volume, sometimes placing such a premium on loudness that their songs suffer as a result. It’s a strange sight, seeing as the foursome have been slowly becoming slightly softer…in a good way…on record. Previously, the jaunty “Pinhole” appeared to be OGRE embracing pop and letting song structure…
Rarely do really good Japanese bands see albums released in the United States. So when one manages to get across the Pacific and sneak it’s way into select stores…get the new Shugo Tokumaru album in October people!…it really shouldn’t be ignored. Which is to say that Molice’s Catalystrock comes out in the States today. Heck,…