Powerpop trio Honeydew have a new album coming out soon, and they’ve shared the straight-ahead “Letter To Home” over at Powerpop Academy as a preview. This is a no frills, right-to-the point number, one where the outfit plunge forward until they get to that big juicy hook. This is them operating at their best, and like other ear-worm highlights, has no room for any excess. Listen above.
Recently on Twitter, I saw someone write (and I paraphrase) that expecting dance music to be about anything more than dancing or fucking is ridiculous. Nagoya’s House Of Tapes envision another use on new song “Noise Attack” – sonic assault. True to its name, “Noise Attack” is an often unrelenting but always engaging listen, every…
Fantastic Explosion, you make it so easy. The group’s new album is called Sounds In Space and based off the samples up on their label’s MySpace, this stuff could also have been created in an alternate reality where MIR housed a sick dance club. The title track pulses ahead on laser-like synths and a bongo-rockin’…
Of course Soutaiseiriron’s first full taste of their new album — out this week — is the final track. I mean, they did put out a trailer too. Over the last few years, Soutaiseiriron have proven to be one of the more influential Japanese bands of the last decade, lead singer Etsuko Yakushimaru’s near-whispered sing-speak…
Part of me hesitates at broaching this subject, yet for the purpose of this post it must be done – lets talk dubstep. Well, assuming we can even agree on a common definition of it. A few years ago, that wouldn’t have been difficult, because “dubstep” referred to a very dark, very British type of…
Alright, go ahead and don’t dwell on the image above. Shintaro Katagiri seems to be a big fan of EarthBound, but new track “Airplane” sounds nothing like video game background music. Katagiri saves his game file to go out on a Saturday night (errrr, metaphorically) – “Airplane” is guided by neon streaks of keyboard that…
Canopies And Drapesの音楽には隠れたとげがあったりします。夢のような雰囲気の”Sleeping Under The Bed”にも、もっとミニマルな”The Door Into Summer”にも、ダークな雰囲気がどこかに潜んでいます。（歌詞の内容であったり、ボーカルの処理の仕方だったり）。Drapesの４枚目のカセット、”Stray Sheep’s Delight”にも何かしらそんな遊びがあるのかな？と思い聴いてみると、収録曲はグループの今までの曲の中でもずば抜けて単純明快。ビート、ギター、ベース、そしてTalk Talkの”I Believe In You”を彷彿とさせるシンセ。全てが上手く混ざり合いポップさが最大限に活かされています。聴けば聴く程難しいテーマが思い浮かびますよ。ボーカルは少し聴こえづらいものの、”my fate is in his hands”という歌詞は確認でき、楽しい曲はよりドラマチックに響きに。より時間を費やせば更なる発見もあるかもしれませんが、単純に一回聴くだけでも楽しむ事のできる良い曲だと思います。