Welp, it’s now September and we’ve completely failed to talk about a handful of great (and not so great!) Japanese albums. Massive, massive failure on my part, especially after I went and named uhhhhh June “Stuff We Missed Month” before not getting through anything. Yet with the time fast approaching when nerds like me put…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sScv49aePJs”] At first, I’m thinking “Africaemo have finally decided to hug it out with the Friendly Fires sound.” At times, they sounded quite similarly to that dance-oriented English outfit on last year’s solid Squatter mini-album, but “City Boy, City Girl” seemingly finds the group emerging from a phone booth clad in Fires’ t-shirts and branded…
Jittery dance-rockers Africaemo have a new album called Power Of The City out in July, and they’ve been as kind as to share a mini-preview of the songs from their latest over at their official website. Go on over here and turn your eyes to the top-right corner. Sounds synth-tastic!
Just like the song list, I intend to share 25 albums almost surely overlooked by the West that I really enjoyed in the past year. Of course, I missed just as many great albums and a year from now I’ll probably regret/want to expand this. Yet these 25 albums definitely deserve your attention. 25. Hideki…
30. Salyu “新しいYES” A lot has changed since I first wrote about this song back on April 1st…I don’t know what chemicals I got slizzered on when I compared Salyu to Erykah Badu and Cosmogramma ran away with my “album of 2010” honors…but this track’s selling point stays the same. I can assure you no…