Sometimes, music just falls between the cracks. It’s a damn shame when those out-of-sight tunes end up being really great. The Insect Kids posted a couple of new, stripped down indie-pop jams at some point this year, and I completely didn’t notice them until today. Whoooops! These new tunes appear to be on a forthcoming…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbzdw_ZjQNs&hl=en_US&fs=1&] So Asian Kung-Fu Generation have a new single out this week, and I have no idea what to feel about it. As a reviewer that’s basically me admitting I suck at my job, but “ソラニン” strikes me as a tricky beast. It’s the official theme song for the soon-to-be-out film Solanin and it feels…
Last we left AAPS, they were dipping their toes into the dub step kiddie pool. Now, with “Sick Lullabies,” they remove those toes, dry them off, and cannonball into a regular pool. The group’s latest is pure tropical bliss, bird chirps greeting us to the most relaxed beach party put to wax. It resembles the…
Wherein She Talks Silence learns to shake it a bit. STS’s other released tracks up to this point were frail pieces of bedroom guitar pop, but with “She Is Not Going Back” this project gets a little extra umph. This track kicks along on some cascading drum beats as She Talks Silence’s vocals get layered…
This should be a scene from UHF. It’s not. It actually happened. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXDgTo9Nsio&hl=en_US&fs=1&] The terror on his face when the lobster comes out…whoa. (via Japanator)