It opens all discombobulated – electronic sounds flash by or pulsate as a sparse drum beat skirts around in the back. Numb To Cars, like a toddler exposed to their first box of Legos, starts starts placing these driftless sounds together. The beat becomes more present and the once distant bleeps start falling into place….
Throwback rockers Wednesday plan on releasing their first full-length album Start The Start on March 10. No songs from this LP have found there way online yet, but when they do, we’ll let you know. In related news, Wednesday’s song “The Party Is Over” recently got the remix treatment from mysterious artist Higu. The Osaka-based…
Fall a little behind on your blog reading and, yeesh, you find yourself totally out of the loop. Both JPOP Lover and personal-recent-discovery Neaux Clicked On It (it’s good, read it) recently big-upped JinnyOops! I think two makes a trend, especially in the tiny universe of Japanese music blogging. This Osaka five-piece plays a punk-tinged…
Talk about good timing – around the same day Pitchfork posts an article about the rise of the cassette tape, one of Japan’s young acts making heavy use of said platform post a new song onto their MySpace. Puffy Shoes’, whose debut cassette was distributed by Scotch Tapes, “Lazy Seventeen” highlights the duo’s garage-fuzz sound,…
DJ Obake, at first brush, just makes solid dance music. Listen to “Bubblicious ’99” and admire how the track builds up to a great moment of catharsis, where shiny synth beams break through the song and make it even more triumphant. Good dance track! Or the funhouse that is “I Hate This World,” which sounds…