When you read this, I will probably be in an airplane heading back to Japan. Thus, posts are still gonna’ be a little sporadic. Anyway, here is a new one from Madegg called “Float Ring.” Listen below!
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Ahhh, a day away from December which means many things…one of them being the futile catching up on albums that have zoomed by us (read: me), or giving works that seemed sort of forgettable in the first half of the year another shot (yesterday I tried listening to that Drake album…still really bad). Have A…
There was a time when Saitama-based outfit Boys Age released songs on a weekly basis, and dropped albums just as quickly. Over the last year, the project has slowed down and taken its time putting out new material, and it has managed to make the songs that do appear all the more urgent. Which is…
Osaka “techrockers” Bang Bang Balloon have two new demos up on their MySpace. “Night Seeing” features male vocals and ventures into some pretty Cut Copyish territory. The standout though is “Journey To The West,” the most pop song Balloon’s done to this point. Lead singer ecco’s voice reaches some Kylie-levels of excellence here and the…
Virgin Babylon Records has had one of those banner years a label can only dream of, so it’s fitting that the guy running the whole operation gets in on it too. Katsuhiko Maeda’s World’s End Girlfriend project has a new album out — their first in six years — at the end of the month,…
I write a lot about INNIT here, but Kansai has another electronic-music party doing interesting stuff too. It’s called IdleMoments, and the event aims at bringing together those “who advocate for a new sound in Japan.” Organizer Shinya Wada records under the moniker Eadonmm, and his tracks hint at the artistic space IdleMoments allows. Specifically,…
THE DIM play garage rock covered with bloghouse signifiers – their songs revolve mostly around guitar and drums, but the four-piece pushes in dashes of synths worthy of Hipster Runoff. Not much info about this band exists and they only have three songs streaming over at their MySpace, but the trio of tunes are pretty…