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Controlled Karaoke: Jim O’Rourke Sings Enka

ByPatrick St. Michel January 18, 2011

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The audio seems kinda weird and doesn’t always match up with the video…but whatever, here’s Jim O’Rourke singing an Enka song.

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New Yentax: “Yentax Error”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 4, 2016

We’ve been quite smitten with the music the duo of Yentax have put forth thus far, and latest cut “Yentax Error” only further fuels that interest. This number features more guitar at its center, only introducing rubbery synth lines and brief vocal touches (covered in a layer of electricity) about halfway through. It’s a track…

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New I Saw You Yesterday: “City Girl”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 20, 2018

“City Girl” first came out in April as part of I Saw You Yesterday’s “Topia” single. But it is such a nice rush of indie-pop — and now complete with video of a recent stop in Thailand — that it’s worth posting on this gloomy rainy day. The band’s strongest quality remains their ability to…

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New Iivvyy (Kosmo Kat And HVNS): “Look”
ByPatrick St. Michel November 13, 2017

Don’t expect the “(Kosmo Kat And HVNS)” part to be up in the titles too much longer. The pair, working under the moniker Iivvyy, have established their own liquid-metal take on techno, all Terminator like, over the course of three songs. “Look” marks the third, and it’s as strong a statement a vision as the…

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New Teen Runnings: “High School Love”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 2, 2014

One of the most straightforward sweet songs the trio Teen Runnings have ever written, “High School Love” is the latest taste of the group’s forthcoming Now full-length, and it hints that not all of the outfit’s interpretations of ’60s surf music are fractured with bad memories. This is sugar sweet, about a usually doomed subject…

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No Time To Chill: Yuri’s “Nijuuichi Seiki No Rinri”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 20, 2019

While I respect how so much music in the digital-and-streaming age can help people focus or get various chores done, I’m also a little hesitant of how frequently songs simply become background music. Besides often being boring, it just feels like a cheap approach to art, to reduce it to room filler. Yuri’s Nijuuichi Seiki…

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Opened Up At Last: Keita Sano’s “I Found The Key”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 13, 2016

Some artists release music at such a rapid pace that finding the right track to spotlight…whether they are an established act (Lullatone, who have been releasing a song a week this year and I just don’t know what to do without turning it into a weekly fixture) or a relative newcomer. Keita Sano isn’t super…

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