It has been a busy last few days around these parts, not helped by me finally downloading a certain wonderful cat game, and this blog has fallen behind a bit. That’s no good! Here is a catch-up post of a few notable releases from this week. – Tokyo’s LLLL posted the free-to-download “Times Can Be…
Boys Age’s proper debut album STILL hasn’t arrived in stores (that’s next week), yet the duo just keep on pumping out music. It remains their most intriguing aspect and the one that makes them so very hard to really sum up (though when they put out a best-of comp, it is vital). Well, that and…
At the tailend of 2014, Tokyo duo Boys Age released what was a best-of collection of the prolific pair’s music. It was a needed album, as the group have released many EPs, albums and singles across all sorts of labels over the last few years, and finding a solid entry point was pretty tough. A…
I’m not a designer of any sort, so please enjoy this clip art. Something that tends to happen with end-of-the-year lists is writers and publications end up creating narratives for the year that just unfolded. The dominant one for 2014 so far has been “what a horrible year,” which…fair enough, if you followed the news…
The artists who benefit the most from best-of compilations tend to be on extreme ends of the output spectrum. Those who create very little over a career benefit from said collections because they act as one-stop listens basically serving as a whole archive. And then there are the prolific acts, such as Boys Age…this pair…