New Perfume Video: “不自然なガール” Or “Artificial Girl”
Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpYGXVVNaxk”] Indie-pop darlings anymori aren’t messing around. On new song “革命,” the trio dash through a guitar-centric bounce-around in just under two minutes, slowing down only once or twice during the short playtime. Nothing that you’d call complex, but andymori usually likes to operate in that way – favoring simple, driving tracks that allow them…
[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…
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu turns 20 next week*, and to celebrate she has a new single called “Furisodeshon,” which you can hear above. Sonically, it sounds like Yasutaka Nakata is returning to his early-Capsule days, as the music sounds like something off of S.F. Sound Furniture or before. And yeah the video is pretty great, especially…
When I first arrived in Japan I spent three days in Tokyo at an orientation for my new teaching gig. I attended a workshop about Japanese pop culture in an effort to become hip to life in Japan. Following an introduction to popular Japanese television, we came to the music portion of the lecture. The…
(Heh, talk about nice timing) Kobe producer Tofubeats’ latest single is here, and after two major-label songs where he hooked up with some older names, he’s teamed up with Hitomi Arai of Tokyo Girls’ Style for new single “Come On Honey!” It’s a shuffling number featuring some nice synth blurts right before the chorus and…
Don’t expect regular updates until I’m back in Japan this weekend…but before savoring the last few days of vacation, I did want to post the new Sakanaction song “Eureka.” Watch the video above. The Kohaku TV show (a yearly program where some of the most popular singers from Japan perform on New Year’s Eve) and,…