This isn’t the first album Boys Age released in 2016, and you sure can bet it won’t be the last, given the duo’s typically prolific output over the last few years. But Pangea finds the Saitama pair refining the hazy, easy-going rock they’ve been exploring over the past year, with the most up-tempo moments (“King,”…
Maybe you’ve had a hectic week, or maybe you would like to sink away for a bit from boy-band media circuses and just zone out. The global-minded Onmyodo Cassette label’s newest compilation, Cyclical Return, couldn’t surface at a better time, as it compiles skeletal songs from artists hailing from all over the world — though…
20. Lolica Tonica Make Me Feel EP Tokyo’s Trekkie Trax runs on pure energy, the netlabel being a rare case where seeing anyone in their orbit live trumps digging into the .ZIP files they upload online. And they have released a lot of great dance music over the last couple of years, with 2015 being…
Always good to check in on Boys Age and see what the prolific duo are up to. That means one new collection in September, with another on the horizon, geez. Let’s focus on one song, the melancholic “Good Yesterdays,” as the band released a new video for it last week. It’s a sweet tune, a…
The always-productive Boys Age just refuse to slow down. After releasing their first widely distributed album Calm Time, they released another album two months later…and have a third right around the corner. The duo have shared three songs from the forthcoming New Apocalypse, ranging from the surf-rock tinged “Justice” and the funk, warbling title track….