Up until now, Tokyo’s LLLL has featured one primary singer, from Japan. With “Transcribe,” a single released via Bad Panda Records, that changes — it features the voice of Meghan Riley, a Montreal singer-songwriter. Despite that, “Transcribe” still manages to be peak LLLL — unnerving, fragile, absorbing. Listen above.
Just…wow. Good job Japan. You can stop the video at the 2:20 mark, the monsters stop dancing at that point. kaiju danceby gariisenab (Via Japan Probe)
I never would have pegged garage-rock kids The New House as the type to turn to Animal Collective for inspiration. There debut album sounded plenty pleasant, but never hinted at anything beyond simple post-Strokes rock aspirations. Which is why the group’s two latest demos posted to MySpace come as such a shock. Gone are the…
Programming Note: Make Believe Melodies is off to Korea for the weekend, so the blog is taking a rest Friday! Let’s end the week on a slimy note It almost seems a little too straightforward for a guy like Djwwww, who has spent just under a year creating music that sounds more like a dystopian…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlTr1oEhJUA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=ja_JP&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Big week for Wednesday…their debut full-length drops on, ahem, Wednesday. The first single from the boogie-worthy band’s latest just got a video. “? Love” might just be footage of the band playing their instruments, but it at least manages to work in one cool visual trick – as the intro points out, the band…
Contentedness comes in many forms — and Yunovation grapples with the feeling of keeping it simple wonderfully on “Aruteido Aru.” The irony being that this is a massive step forward for the Osaka artist. Yunovation has gotten attention over the last couple of years primarily for constructing songs built around melodica, from swift exercises to…
The Fuji Rock Festival announced its first wave of performers for this summer’s remote, tree-day fest. The big Japanese acts so far include Boom Boom Satelites, toe and Riddim Saunter. As for the foreign acts, heavy hitters include LCD Soundsystem (prepping a new album, Broken Social Scene (ditto), Belle And Sebastian (heading into the studio),…