Look, I’m watching the second half of this Japan-Colombia World Cup game and it is stupid stressful, here is a new song from Osaka’s Soleil Soleil, it’s good. Back to sitting all scrunched up like seeing if Japan can score two goals….
Another year, another 12 months where I initially add a “W” to the end of this band’s name. Anyway, DYGL…not Leather, DYGL…have a new song called “All The Time” up on SoundCloud. It’s a driving rock number, featuring some of the most intensely delivered vocals the young outfit have recorded to date (so throaty!). Listen…
Building off a yesterday’s celebration of a nascent label, let’s turn our eyes to Kyoto’s NC4K. They’ve become a hub for some of Kansai’s more intriguing dance acts, having released highlights from Paperkraft and Stones Tarro. Now comes a two track set from CeeeSTee that pushes into delirious acid. Both “Toe” and “Chimney Up Bow”…
淡く幻想的なFancy Booksのポップから暗闇で覆うようなThe Paellasのロックまで、東京のDead Funny Recordsの2012年は非常に強力でした。でもJappersのLately EPも是非聴いてみて下さいね。このグループのサウンドは溺れるようなFancy Booksのサウンドともファズの掛かったThe Paellasとも違い、クリアでもっとクラシックなロック／ポップを奏でています。”Settle Down”はとても有意義なリラックスタイム。シンプルな構成によってメインの部分が際立ち、曲の良さを効果的に引き出しています。タイトルトラックは”You Can’t Hurry Love”からの影響が感じられるものの、Jappersのヴォーカルはウイスキーを少量飲んだかのように若干荒々しいです。オリジナルの持つ軽快さは陰に潜みますが、それが彼等の個性であり良さなんです。
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXC2ma6UW1U”] Let’s start with some honesty – I probably wouldn’t be writing about Fu_Mou’s “Green Night Parade” had I not seen the video. I’m trying not to imply the song itself is chuck-worthy – it’s half fake-out ballad anchored by piano and Christmas-special singing, which transforms into a semi-glitchy dance track nudged along by sheets…
Sometimes, you just need music that propels you forward. Producer Tororoudon’s “Summer Stream” excels at that particular point, featuring a persistent beat and several layers of high-noon-bright synthesizers, all whirling together alongside some piano notes to form an instrumental cut that just skips ahead all joyful like. Maybe its the constant shifts, from electro-bouncer to…
Denial surrounds and unnerves. The first album from the Tokyo-based project of Cemetery…the solo outing of Batman Winks’ member Kota Watanabe…loads up on spoken-word samples in all sorts of tongues and layers on the thick synthesizer lines to create a collection following somewhere between Jesse Ruins and a puddle of wet cement. Sometimes, a clear…