Faron Square posted two new songs onto his MySpace in the past few weeks, and maybe this duo will make Monday just a little more enjoyable. “Bliss,” currently in “Demo” state, sounds plenty nice, but the highlight-worthy track is the bouncy “Devotion.” It’s the rare piece of bedroom pop that manages to sound…sexy? Maybe it’s…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUDmKnZVah0&hl=en_US&fs=1&] School Food Punishment make like Commando on “Futuristic Imagination” and ruin the bad guy’s shit. The villain here is the ever-present J-Pop Ballad, oversaturating Japan’s pop charts and taking violin strings hostage as the unfortunate hallmark of the sound. This dreadfully named four-piece throw a steam pipe through the ballad’s chest and saves the…
House producer FPM boasts a lot of great music worth you’re time over at his MySpace. Despite sometimes flirting with too-much squanky crunchiness (picture a parrot stepping on leaves for all eternity), he finds a way to inject a good bit of charm into his track. “Without You” loses any of the electro-house connections and…
Featured on the Beautiful Girls Electro compilation CD, THE DIM’s “1, 2 Waltz” above all else recalls Polysics more than anyone else. Just check that goofy Devo-aping keyboard line and dysfunctional beat. That’s not necessarily a compliment – “1, 2 Waltz” sounds like Polysics 2009, when the band’s energy started sounding a little phoned in….
Instrumental math-rockers LITE have a new mini album set to come out on July 7, and the first song from this snack of an album has appeared online. “Image Game” features all the hallmarks of “angular” rock, almost excruciatingly timed perfectly. What saves “Image Game” from feeling like times table homework, though, are the more…