二十歳の誕生日を控えるきゃりーぱみゅぱみゅが、成人式を祝うべく、新曲“ふりそでーしょん”のビデオを公開しました!ビデオは上にあります。まるでプロデューサーの中田ヤスタカが初期Capsule時代に戻ったかのような曲。S.F. Sound Furnitureかそれ以前の作品のよう。きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅが酔っぱらったフリをするのが観たいなら、ビデオは楽しんでもらえるはず(観たいでしょ?)。ひょっとしたら追加でもっと書くかも。成人式を迎える皆様!本当におめでとうございます! *UPDATE: Nope, she doesn’t, that would be the 29th actually. Next week is just coming-of-age day here in Japan. D’oh!
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has a new single out in October, called “Fashion Monster,” but the full song and video came out late tonight (at a good time for Western audiences HMMMMMMMMM). The clip, above, merges The Adam’s Family with Visual Kei…and a bunch of other great imagery one expects from Kyary with each new video. As for the song…well, hopefully I can write more later, but first few plays through this sounds really nice. The 8-bit bloops Yasutaka Nakata works in are great. For now, enjoy a man dressed as a rabbit rocking out on a turntable-equipped keytar.
Did you know we currently live in the summer of saxophone? If you don’t read long thought pieces on music critics’ Tumblrs like I do in my free time (what a life!) you may not have noticed this new discussion point popping up. Yet two of the biggest songs of this season make the once…
English producer…and Maltine fixture…bo en was profiled on Pitchfork today, and of all the great details within also existed…his song for rising Japanese pop singer and Kyary-agency-mate Yun*Chi. The story of Yun*Chi’s music career thus far has been one of sounds being all over the place – she’s been backed by a bunch of producers,…
I haven’t been sleeping much this week, so pardon me if this week’s Station To Station ends up being a bit briefer than others. It helps that I’ve written about some of these songs before. Gonna get at least…eight hours of sleep tonight! NYC “Haina!” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowDcaiDN0E”] Surprisingly, this new song from unloveable scamps NYC sounds…
Ikimono-gakari “Arigato” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nk0uVMV5_A&hl=en_US&fs=1&] The first time I wrote about “Arigato” I focused mostly on the overly long track’s negatives. Though I’d still prefer to see Cheech Marin shoot bad guys while dressed as a priest three times, my imaginary therapist advised me to be a bit more positive about Ikimono-gakari’s latest. As long as we…
The actual musical content of Chatmonchy’s new song is pleasant enough – a bouncy bit of twee-leaning pop that would, in fact, work wonders at a seven-year-old kids’ birthday party. A fine little song, but the really gem of “Birthday Cake No Ue Wo Aruite Kaetta” is the silly video. In the clip, we learn…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pPcaLhBjxQ&feature”] Indie kids take note…THIS is how you do 90’s punk-pop. Though I could live without Sand Beach Surf Coaster’s Rocket Power-ish imagery – aren’t there enough songs about the beach already?…everything else drips with California punk-pop perfection. Guitars drive ahead on only a few chords, making no room for cutesy stuff. Simple but effective…