The Trekkie Trax gang have been keeping busy, and thankfully they made sure “releasing new songs onto SoundCloud” remained one of the collective’s mission. Seimei & Taimei’s “Orion” is a fizzy dance track, one that swerves through several high-energy passages, but is always lithe. Listen below.
If I have one huge glaring weakness when it comes to covering Japanese music and pop culture, it’s the fact I don’t watch much anime. I’d like to blame this on a lack of time, but that would be a lie — I managed to watch Paddington for the second time ever last night. I…
There’s still time to add some soil-covered gems to your 2019 music library, and one of the year’s better albums to be mostly overlooked — including by this blog! — comes from Tokyo quartet Spool. Their self-titled full-length from this February hits a sweet spot between two music communities that carry on strong in Japan,…
Ano(t)raks is growing up a bit. The indie-pop focused netlabel has seen its profile rise in recent years, and has been moving into a more physical direction as of late. To cement this, they’ve more or less split the Ano(t)raks brand in two — one side focusing on physical releases, while the newly minted +Ano(t)raks…
Kindan No Tasuketsu’s music has always sounded like a secret little world, whether they were making splish-splashy folk numbers or dizzying pop numbers. Whatever mood they aim for, it tends to sound like it’s peaking out of a bedroom door frame, even at their most jubilant. “Himitsu No World” embraces that feeling fully, and finds…
Someone out there in Twitter’s hyper-short content wasteland decided to make an account for Jandek, the Texas recluse who has spent 30 years recording music from his house in Houston. The accounts a fake, but one that serves as a nice reminder of how much the musical world has changed in a dozen years. Jandek…
Sometimes, a band goes away for a year and comes back sounding like they never left. Other times, they return with a just-over two minute instrumental aiming to capture the sensation of the world as it nears nightfall. So is the the case with “Sunset Horizon” by The Somedays, their first song since last year’s…