Cooking For You
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.
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.
Producer CRZKNY has made a lot of politically aware music in the last few years, releasing some very impassioned (and very bleak) collections of juke following the Fukushima nuclear plant incident, and he has played a prominent role in organizing the Atomic Bomb Comps of the last few years. Yet dude likes to have fun…
Electro duo 80Kidz have another EP due out this year. Spoiled Boy drops June 23, and features the titular track, the group’s collaboration with CSS leader Lovefoxx. The EP also includes two new tracks and three remixes, including one by The Shoes. Full tracklisting below. 01. Spoiled Boy feat. Lovefoxx 02. BLOW 03. Northcoast 04….
So many Japanese shoegaze bands are just biting My Bloody Valentine…why not make it clear? In the clearest nod to the band since the Yellow Loveless cover project from 2012, Sappy share “Sleepless,” a song lifting a melody straight from MBV’s “When You Sleep.” Blatant? You bet! But they also clearly know it, and are…
Denial surrounds and unnerves. The first album from the Tokyo-based project of Cemetery…the solo outing of Batman Winks’ member Kota Watanabe…loads up on spoken-word samples in all sorts of tongues and layers on the thick synthesizer lines to create a collection following somewhere between Jesse Ruins and a puddle of wet cement. Sometimes, a clear…
Staring at a to-do list…planted in front of a computer working on something or other…riding a train across the city for a meeting…maybe its a big city thing (or, god forbid, a Tokyo thing), but time always seems sparse. Most of what I listen to in 2016 rarely lasts for all that long…I either listen…
New year, new Music Alliance Pact post! Why not continue adjusting to 2012 with the help of the following songs, selected by music blogs based all around the world. For MAP this go around, Make Believe Melodies chose ferocious Tokyo rockers Praha Depart and their song “Portrait Man” (which placed #36 in our top songs…