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Cooking For You

ByPatrick St. Michel March 4, 2010

No reason to waste words on this one – let the drifting guitars and occasional bleeping chaos wash over you as you listen to Cooking For You. Enveloping stuff.

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New Ghostlight: “Kamen”
ByPatrick St. Michel March 17, 2015

Look, I’ve been sitting in Houston’s lame-as-hell airport for six hours now waiting for a flight, and things were getting kinda rough mentally for a bit. But this new song from Ghostlight…it is bouncy and hooky and made me feel better. For now, that’s all I need to say. Listen above.

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New HoneyComeBear: “Calling”
ByPatrick St. Michel April 23, 2019

HoneyComeBear’s calling card has been the ability to take familiar EDM stompings and find a way to turn them into something closer to a J-pop ballad without sacrificing the banger qualities. “Calling” offers the latest example of the duo’s balancing act, featuring skittering drum beats and bright keyboard melodies wrapped around tender verses just really…

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New ΔKTR: “Push”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 15, 2019

ΔKTR makes beats that feel like they are tripping over themselves, but manage to vaudeville themselves into something smooth. It has always been a winning approach, but feels even more welcome when so much music —- even songs with actual singing instead of sliced-up found sounds — aims for the background. Push reminds that the…

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MySpace Punks: The Creams
ByPatrick St. Michel October 4, 2011

As evidenced by all the twee music I celebrate on this blog, I’m not really a punk. I like plenty of “punk” music, but the kids wearing torn jeans always intimidated me in junior high. Which might be why the definition of “punk” has always seemed a bit elusive to me. Though I think a…

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New Secret Space: “Past”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 13, 2014

The sound of rain and a school chime…Secret Space delivers right on the title from the start before introducing a delicate synth skip accompanied by bell shakes that makes up the bulk of his latest. Taking cues from the nostalgia-tinged sounds of i-fls or Shortcake Collage Tape, it’s a fragile little song where those samples…

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An Open Letter To Your Gold, My Pink (Featuring New Songs And Video)
ByPatrick St. Michel June 21, 2010

Dear Your Gold, My Pink, I hope this letter finds you well. I won’t waste space on formalities – you were one of the first bands to really get me excited about Japan’s music scene when I first came to these shores. You’re catchy melodies and sudden outbursts of pure joy sounded like an evolutionary…

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