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New Kindan No Tasuketsu: “Crazy”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 2, 2014

Here’s a slow burner from Kindan No Tasuketsu, “Crazy.” It unfolds like a nursery rhyme (that chorus), and features a wild keyboard solo amidst all the longing.

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New CVN: “Trash Eye (Second Cry)”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 16, 2016

Jesse Ruins called it a day earlier this year, but Nobuyuki Sakuma carries on with the harsher CVN project, which will release a new album called Frost on August 24. “Trash Eye (Second Cry)” is the first taste of it, and it is a harsh one, full of babies crying and shouting, sliced up and…

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STOP-MOTION DOGS!!! Takahiro Kido’s “Oranges And Lemons”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 27, 2011

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ65uphWC8A”] One of the things I try to do on this blog is write slightly longer posts about Japanese music, at least something a little more than “check out this new song/video” which is cool but sometimes you want to expand on those thoughts? You should see this review of the new Capsule album, long…

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The New House
ByPatrick St. Michel November 14, 2009

Is describing a band’s music as “like The Strokes” still a no-no? Tokyo’s The New House sound a lot like The Strokes, or at least they possess those garage-rock qualities everyone loved back at the start of the decade. Heck, one of their tracks (“Social Evils and a Potato (Hamon Mix)”) sounds like it might…

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Teen Runnings Meet Chicago’s The Lemons For Split Record
ByPatrick St. Michel June 12, 2014

Yesterday, we saw the first taste of LLLL’s Zoom-Lens-released album, and now we have another American/Japanese partnership to highlight. Chicago-based label Gary Records is no stranger to releasing non-American music – they’ve also spotlighted groups from Taiwan, Australia and Ireland – and they’ve brought Tokyo’s fuzzed-out surf-rock trio Teen Runnings into the fold for a…

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New House Of Tapes: “Sleep Jam”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 17, 2015

Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has the perfect song to listen to before hitting the ol’ hay — if you fancy having nightmares for the rest of the night. “Sleep Jam” is a rumbling slow-mo number, where voices blur together over the central mass, and electric storms gather on the sides (or maybe that’s just the…

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New Mom: “Himitsu No Futari”
ByPatrick St. Michel April 23, 2019

Let’s call this one a softer side of Mom. The artist’s best work, for me at least, has always been about energy, often giddily jamming genre together or simply finding his own perspective on hip-hop and running with it. “Himitsu No Futari” keeps things mellow. It’s the closest he’s come to approaching that neo-city-pop sound,…

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