New Kindan No Tasuketsu: “Crazy”
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.
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.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO9npWfCKGQ”] It seems like human laser light show Avengers In Sci-Fi have been grounded for quite a bit, but conditions have cleared up just in time for a new single. Tongue-twisting “Delight Slight Lightspeed,” presented in clip form above, teases a mission into Coheed & Cambria-lite territory before blasting off into interstellar rock featuring the…
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Hirokazu Tanaka isn’t just any video game soundtrack composer. He’s a legend, having helped create the familiar 8-bit musical backdrops for games such as Metroid and Tetris among others. And the songs for Earthbound, a game which I played a lot as a kid, and which boasts a soundtrack that still goes strong today. Part…
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