The song itself isn’t new — “Cluster A” and all of its Lorde-sampling glory came out in January, though it sounds every bit as joyfully kaleidoscopic now as it did then. But the video sure is, and it’s so cute! Especially the ghosts and the dogs on skateboards. Watch it above, and get the Cyanotype album too while you are at it.
Leave it to Japan’s juke scene to deliver an album inspired by Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition. Skip Club Orchestra’s latest — released on New Year’s Eve, making this (I think) the last 2017 collection I needed to catch up on — features 20 songs, all of them hovering right around the three minute mark….
This one’s taken a few plays to really wrangle with, but the latest single form tofubeats works when zooming in on the details. Taken as a whole “Keep On Lovin’ You” offers up some easy-going pop that imagines a best-case Maroon 5 circa turn of the century (OK, a far better comparison would be a…
Few feelings excite in the digital age like seeing a previously net-shy label dumping their discography onto a site. So was the case this week with Passion Records, which took to Bandcamp to share a handful of releases from artists who have put out music through them. Among the albums uploaded was The Pats Pats’…
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。
I’ll cut straight to the chase…the band Flight Egg recently posted two new songs to their MySpace. One of them sounds like a stab at Radiohead balladry. The other, and the one I want to write about, is “道程.” The track opens with an indie-take on hard rock, meaning the guitars sound aggressive but still…
We are inching closer and closer to the release of Seiho’s Collapse, out via Leaving Records on May 20, and Thump has shared another song from the fractured collection called “Exhibition.” Similar to “Peach And Pomegranate” before it, this is a jagged affair building up to a release that bursts the song apart, only for…