[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjc5x9h_Q4g”] A lot has changed for Tokyo’s CUZ ME PAIN label since they released their first compilation a few years back. AAPS called it a day, Jesse Ruins grabbed some blog love and got picked up by Captured Tracks, Lovers In The Wind remain a complete mystery and Melancholic Masculinity just goes by Masculin now….
The artwork surrounding CUZ ME PAIN’s Atlas Young features a lot of horses, for reasons unknown. For the first time, Young has recorded a song that would sound great playing over footage of stallions running across a field. “Lost Thing” features a legitimate (sorry) gallop that lends it a cinematic feel one really doesn’t expect…
Another day, another hazy bit of bedroom pop leaking out of the CUZ ME PAIN family, this time from Atlas Young. “Transfixing” hits all the pleasure points that makes Young’s music enjoyable…rainbow-bright music flowing over heavily obscured vocals, all resulting in something best described as “encompassing.” Nothing really drastically different on this go from Atlas…
Bedroom whiz Atlas Young most of found a shoebox full of material underneath his bed, because he’s releasing a glut of new material into the world. According to MySpace, Young not only has a CD called Echo Goddess full of new material, but also a cassette tape dubbed Fantasy Horse with 14 more new songs….
The name should offer a big tip as what to expect – Atlas Young dabbles in bedroom music often associated with acts featuring very similar names. Yet Atlas Young isn’t at all derivative. He makes massive, sky-ward symphonies greatly indebted to shoegaze in his room. Vocals get doused in a colorful coat of swirling electronics,…