New MimiCof Video: “Aria, But Secret”
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Watch some wacky-altered footage of nature above.
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Watch some wacky-altered footage of nature above.
Golden Week is a, uhhhh, week at the start of May when a bunch of Japanese national holidays happen all in a row. Many people flex their vacation days to get the whole deal off, while the rest of us make do with only having to go into work twice. Lots of folks travel around…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uVaPVZ9Nl4″] Just the other day I wrote about fidgety rockers NOKIES! around these parts. I take one day off from the job and what happens? Another song from NOKIES!’ forthcoming 7 Songs EP makes its way online. “Take My Hand” actually swerves a bit away from how I described the group in that last post…
The key is escape. Osaka indie-pop outfit Pictured Resort probably wouldn’t object to getting a little bit of that “city pop revival” love, what with a debut album called All Vacation Long out in August. Yet the main vibe of the bands — fairly or not — being lumped in that revival is of being…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dalOhMk5Wqk”] Man, I really hate to be THAT guy…the one stereotypical dude/ette who always says something similar to what I’m about to write and immediately puts off everyone around them because of it…but I think getting a mainstream push has sorta ruined SCANDAL. Prepare rotten garbage and shouts of “pretentious dick!” now, but the group’s…
Sappy can’t settle on any one sound, and they are probably better off for it. Their just-released second album Altima finds the group zipping from mainstream baiting bits of bright-eyed balladry (“Starfall”) to sun-dappled indie-pop (“She See“). Their best mode, though, comes when they get a bit more dramatic on “Spider.” Those opening guitar chugs…
The City Pop revival chugs on in the Japanese music industry, and as has been pointed out by Ryotaro Aoki at The Japan Times, it’s basically just a joke. So bless outposts like B.O.O.S.T.R and compilations such as the just-released Schau Essen 2, for actually diving into the at-times grotesque sounds of Bubble Era Japan…