Gotta hand it to Bedroom Tourist…guy can work on several different levels. His two latest MySpace tracks collide with one another stylistically, butting heads like two goofy rams. “Saints Come To My Town 6.5” loops some electronics around before Bedroom Tourist comes into the track to “sing.” He uses what sounds like Autotune the entire…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSvXkXxccIg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I’m glad Toki Asako decided to include a lot of mirrors in the video for her latest single “Ranhansha Girl,” because it makes describing the track as “glassy” a lot easier. The song open with a stammering series of electronics before working some shiny bell chimes into the song. “Ranhansha Girl’s” real triumph though…
I don’t know about you, but it has been a long week and I’m looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend. To help set the mood, enjoy feather-in-the-wind instrumental outfit Hyakkei. Their latest song “Kagerou Railway” removes the “epic” out of post-rock, turning what could have been a soundtrack for a high school football game…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87RinkXCNxc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=ja_JP&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Wednesday rock out on the top of a helicopter landing pad for the video to one of their excellent debut’s best songs. Watch and listen above.
Could the world soon see another surge in artists relying heavily on video game noises? It’s possible…Crystal Castles just dropped a highly touted LP, and album-of-2010-thus-far Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus pushes 8-bit sounds into new far-out realms. So maybe chiptune raver 99 Letters can get a little attention from this could-be trend. He’s got another…