New Polysics: “Let’s Dabadaba”
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Watch it above.
It feels like Stones Taro has been keeping busy in 2019, releasing on all kinds of labels and generally just delivering quality each time. The Insane EP comes from Italy’s Bellissima!, but follows in the footsteps of the tracks he’s put out via Japan’s NC4K. These are slightly loopy house tracks teasing a little bit…
All relationships need the occasional dash of spice in them to work, a change of scenery if you will. Tsu Shi Mi Ma Re have been performing for more than a decade now, so I don’t blame them for trying something drastically new for their next release. That said…this seems a bit much, the equivalent…
In which pop-spazz EeL looks at all the people disappointed in the forced zaniness of last year’s For Common People by giving them something truly zany and out of nowhere, a cover of “All That She Wants.” OK, she probably didn’t pay any attention to the folks let down by her last album, but her…
Some Japanese rock band named Kishidan recently did an interview with MTV Japan. Most of the time, nobody except maybe really die-hard Kishidan fans (do those exist?) would give a care. But said interview featured the group wearing uniforms resembling the clothes members of the SS wore in Nazi Germany. This has spurred Jewish human…
Why not start the new week…the last full one of June, yikes!…with some driving indie-pop? Miles Apart Records has a knack for locating really talented groups creating fuzzy numbers featuring lots of distortion but sweetly sung hooks. Tokyo’s Luby Sparks are the latest to debut via the label, with the driving “Pop. 1979,” which features…
Projects shrouded in mystery — especially ones featuring a healthy amount of Japanese — raise a lot of suspicion nowadays, rightfully so. Maybe Pasocom Music Club lives in Wichita, or maybe it is some sort of SoundCloud bot pumping out effortlessly smooth grooves. But they are just so relaxing, easy-going (and far from complicated) creations…