Hear A Little Of A New Perfume Song, “Point,” Now
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPG6nPSBeP4″]
Listen to a little bit above.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPG6nPSBeP4″]
Listen to a little bit above.
So some guy went and bought 5500 copies of the latest AKB48 single. Scientists have informed me that’s 5500 more copies than necessary. Seriously, this man spent 8.8 million yen on boxes and boxes of AKB48 singles. Like, I know some people have an unhealthy obsession with this group (pictures like the one at the…
Lost amongst the talk about the revival of the saxophone or how Kreayshawn managed to become something more than the next “Friday,” 2011 has seen a small upswing in postrock. Godspeed You! Black Empire reunited and played some shows, while Mogwai and Explosions In The Sky released new albums (even if the latter ended up…
One important fact must be addressed when talking about Perfume, whether in discussion of the trio’s music, the group’s commercial ventures or Ayaka Nishiwaki’s hair – every Perfume song generally sounds the same. The pop-outfit aren’t artistically bankrupt so much as they have stuck to a winning template…wall-to-wall electro-sweetness, digitized vocals and an insanely good…
Earlier this year, Los Angeles musician Baths released a song called “Aminals” into the wilds of the music world. The track stands out in a year featuring an RSS-feed-worth of artists’ mining the sounds of their youth (read: the 80s) for cheap nostalgia. “Aminals” isn’t a tossed-off slab of irony-cloaked pop, but rather a labored-over…
Cute spazzballs MacDonald Duck Eclair have a new video for the Lite-Brite hop of “Tip Tap Mac.” The clip features a lot of lit-up items, some cubes and a fair helping of cuteness (not surprising considering that band name). Watch it below. [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3pgjE3jDag”] Thanks to SparkPlugged for posting that first. I already wrote up my…
Yasutaka Nakata was starting to test my faith a bit. After a run of great Perfume singles and the lovely Capsule full-length Player, dude clearly started getting a little bored of pop-leaning production and embraced his dance side. He masterminded Capsule’s World Of Fantasy last year, a club-centric album that mostly embraced the abrasive sounds…