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.
Kindan No Tasuketsu are a band full of detours — they’ve explored boogie-assisted rap, tropical instrumentals and fragile acoustic ruminations — but I’d argue they are at their best with the big, bright-eyed songs mixing melancholy with excitement for what tomorrow might bring. Like “Tonight Tonight” before it, “Tomorrow World” is a nervous electro-pop number…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLy4cvRx7Vc”] This popped up seconds before I was going to go to bed. Harajuku fashion idol turned singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s new song “つけまつける” just hit the web, and you can watch the predictably nutty video above. I like when she pulls the sparkle rope out of her mouth…or maybe I really like the part…
For the most part, Hiroshima’s CRZKNY has operated in a quick-hit, often aggressive style when it comes to juke. He either loads up on split-second samples or creates a thick sense of unease, one that lends itself well to his political leanings. Groove 2, a two-track release from Poland’s Outlines imprint that follows up compatriot…
A friend and I had a long talk today about what’s going on in indie Japanese music…well, and J-pop…and came to the conclusion things are pretty strange. Mainstream artists are letting all sorts of ideas into their songs, and the underground seems just as much all over the place. Yet one place we agreed was…
Indie pop can be a strange mistress. I’ve gone on record as declaring I’m hopelessly doomed to love twee-leaning music probably for the rest of my life. Yet, contrary to the amount of posts tagged “twee” on this here web log, I’m not googly-eyed over every single cutesy band. Sometimes this sorta wimpy stuff can…
Tokyo noise-rock trio P-iPLE had a productive summer. They released their debut album Do Do Do A Silly Travel By Bicycle Bicycle, and contributed the song “I Can’t Speak English” to Call And Response Records’ Throw Away Your CDs Go Out To A Show compilation. Now, here’s another gateway in — they made a video…