Days after announcing a new album slated for release March 10, Osaka trio Wednesday have posted the first song from that album onto MySpace. “? Love” finds the band showing off their brand of throwback rock, with a sea of “doo doos” and a rhythm ripped straight out of an old-school prom fast dance. It’s two-and-a-half minutes of pure dancey-guitar-pop pleasure. A great album tease.
FNCY makes nostalgia seem so natural. The trio of Zen-La-Rock, G-Rina and Chinza Dopeness has largely turned throwback hip-pop ideas into tag-team successes, as recently as this past January. Latest single “DRVN’” still nods to the past, but strips the sound back in favor of a cool West Coast breezer of a beat (produced by…
Tokyo’s LLLL is prepping the next installment of the Chains series for a December release, and “For F” shows a continued commitment to the shadowy but ultimately hopeful sound that has defined the bulk of this project. The music here comes off as among the heaviest things LLLL has created as part of this series,…
Miila “Santa Baby” この曲はクリスマス・クラシックの独自バージョン。今回the Geeksは参加しておらずMiilaのソロとしてのリリースなのですが、グランジーでスローなギターにシンプルかつどこか不気味なドラムが印象的な”Santa Baby”のカバーになっています。Miilaは淡々と歌うものの、その擦れた質感やたびたび登場するノイズも相まって、今まで聴いたどのカバーよりも邪悪な印象です。ビデオは以下から。 Her Ghost Friend Merry Christmas Her Ghost Friendはホリデー・シーズンの為に特別な３曲を用意してくれました。そのうちの２曲はオリジナルで、今までのグループのリリースの中でも１番と言っていいほど優れた作品です（Her Ghost Friendの”Looking For Wonder”は今年のベストの１つだと言っているわけなのですが）。”白い、白い、好き、好き、”はノイジーに始まるのですが、ボーカル、ストリングスとシンセが美しく絡み付いていきます。ハープのようなアルペジオ・フレーズがとても華やかですね。”哀愁のクリスマス – Merry Christmas Dear Girl”はオルゴールのようなサウンドがいくつもレイヤーされていて、とてもユニークかつロマンチック。セットは”Miracle Powerful Beat”のリミックスで幕を閉じます。試聴は以下から。 Yucca “Waiting For Snow” もっとスローなテンポが好みで、クリスマスらしく鈴の音が聴きたい方は、Yuccaの”Waiting For Snow”のビデオをオススメします。ビデオは以下から。
— The latest from Omoide Label comes via Fa-mi in the form of the quick hit Oriental, a tropical-leaning set of body-moving dance tunes. “Thank You” sums it up pretty well, letting sunset-ready synth notes play out over strums of acoustic guitar and a persistent but never pushy beat. “Hallo” and (especially) “Flower” bring a…
Producer MPEG-7 operates in many modes, sometimes slicing up anime samples and other times creating hip-hop beats. Latest release ing might be them operating in their best mode, however. It’s a four-song set focused primarily on drama. It is loaded up with strings and piano notes, the latter making up the chilly into of “Bleaking”…
“Collapse” seems to be a word popping up with a bit of frequency in the Japanese electronic music scene this year. Seiho’s recently released Collapse is the most obvious, an album that gets its name from a deliberate move to break down his style and rebuild. Nagoya’s House Of Tapes latest album is called End…