Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
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…
Ikimono-gakari “ノスタルジア” – This is basically a ballad, but let’s take the “glass half full” approach and look at “ノスタルジア’s” positive attributes. Unlike most J-Pop ballads swelling to the brim with strings and peaks, Ikimono-gakari keeps things rather understated. Only some acoustic guitar strums and keyboards accompany lead singer Kiyoe Yoshioka’s vocals. Something about this…
How the world divined for me to stumble across the above image the same week Linkin Park are penciled in to play on Music Station, I will never know. Yet I have, and there it is…the members of Linkin Park turned into ponies. I don’t even know. See the original here. KAT-TUN “To The Limit”…
Another day, another Yasutaka Nakata-produced electro-pop track. At this point, every act Nakata touches ends up baring similar sonic hallmarks – no-free-space electronics joined by digitally manipulated vocals. Meg’s “Secret Adventure” single features all these markers and, like most of Nakata’s work with Perfume and Capsule, sounds like an absolute computer-generated ear worm. It’s not…
She Talks Silence releases the follow-up EP to last year’s excellent Noise & Novels, Some Small Gifts, tomorrow, but starting right now you can hear a new song. She’s released a video for the track “Vanished Vacances” which you can watch below. STS still has got it…”it” hear being catchy music obscured by the decision…
How, exactly, do you take the reigns back on things you can’t control? Or, less flowery — how do you reclaim your narrative? Your view might vary, but I think it’s fair to say Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has been perceived to be treading water since she released her last album. Key word is “perceived,” as…