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.
Lots of music news happened last week, and fitting all into normal posting hours turned out to be tough. So, here we are, with some quick hits we didn’t get around to. Let’s catch up, shall we? – Not content with releasing a free EP of original work, CUZ ME PAIN’s Nites project went and…
Last year’s month of new Taquwami everyday felt like a challenge at the time, but one that had the faithful (me, for sure) ready to commit to hear unreleased material from one of the decade’s very best. The recent effort to wrangle all those tracks together — aptly titled 31 — not only makes for a…
Fall a little behind on your blog reading and, yeesh, you find yourself totally out of the loop. Both JPOP Lover and personal-recent-discovery Neaux Clicked On It (it’s good, read it) recently big-upped JinnyOops! I think two makes a trend, especially in the tiny universe of Japanese music blogging. This Osaka five-piece plays a punk-tinged…
Lake Michigan used to be a solid indie-pop band, an outfit making skippy numbers glazed with plenty of melancholy, which is to say it was standard but quality stuff in a genre never lacking in artists within Japan. Well, the group has certainly changed in some ways, boasting a new name — Michiganized — and…
Oh what a wonderful way to close out the remaining days of summer. The ever-reliable commune310 shared two compilations of summer material recently, and A gets off to a hot start, with Bamboo’s “I Can Feel It’ delivering some loose-limbed funk before Yuzen’s eight-minute-plus “Yourself” delivers a slow-burning blast of tropical delight, loaded up with…
Few can transform anime songs and assorted J-Pop numbers into club thumpers like The Sub Account, so we are always jazzed when they release a new EP. EP 04 features a nice blend of anime turn-ups…I can’t think of an outfit who could transform a Love Live! song into an EDM tornado, complete with LMFAO…