Seiho posted this new song, “So Far,” yesterday, and it is definitely worth your time. It is the first track of his in a while not to feature some sort of mutated vocal sample – here, he just lets his electronics warp themselves around into a really colorful beat. Listen below.
Kindan No Tasuketsu aren’t afraid to dig into their song catalog and keep exploring. “Twilight” has existed in other forms and versions before, but recently the group gave it a winter rework via a “Bell Rings Ver.),” which…well, adds a lot of bell sounds. The emotional core of the song remains intact, though, as does…
Rega describe themselves as a “progressive jam band.’ Don’t run in terror just yet – yes, pledging allegiance to “progressive jam” implies this Japanese quartet exists in the same dirty-hair realm of Phish and countless other bands who, given the chance, could play a nine-hour long show. Turns out Rega either don’t know how to…
Sometimes its the moment not happening that ends up being the most memorable. Universe Nekoko’s “Like A Raspberry” goes for something more delicate, more spacious than some of the band’s more outright shoegaze material. Everything feels near whispered, while the music itself feels barely there, like a light wind grazing over someone walking in the…
“Naked Water” isn’t a religious experience…well, not for me at least…but it sure sounds holy. Or at least like it deserves to be performed inside a church. Earthquake Island wisely keep the bulk of the music simple – the beat is serviceable, but importantly non-intrusive, doing its job and stepping aside – and let voices…
Electronic artist De De Mouse wowed this year by crossing bright cartoony sounds with drum and bass. Wood Solid Dance Jam apply a similar strategy, but instead of electronic music they drizzle breakbeats over jazzy compositions. If Music Is Rotted one Note instantly came to mind, you know how this goes – WSDJ take a…
Now this is more like it. PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET’s last single, “Pretty Little Bag,” certainly satiated anyone who needed a standard helping of shoegaze in their diet. Yet it was also a little too zoned out, far too content to stare at its Converse sneakers and engage in any conversation beyond “what is reality…