Well this was a fun one. I talked to the fine folks of CUZ ME PAIN…including NITES/Jesse Ruins, the Faron Square dudes and AAPS…and the recently-relocated-to-Tokyo Friends for The Japan Times for an article about bedroom artists in Japan. The article comes complete with a mix that CUZ ME PAIN put together just for the…
CUZ ME PAIN has been having a pretty busy month. Faron Square released a new album, and the mysterious label also plans on releasing four-track seven inch record highlighting music from the likes of NITES, Atlas Young, :visited and Melancholic Masculinity. Not to mention Jesse Ruins has become a bit of a blog darling in…
In which one of introverted label CUZ ME PAIN’s brightest stars pops open an adult beverage and comes dangerously close to having a party. Faron Square isn’t the first artists from these ranks to sorta cut loose – the bright blinking synths of NITES bring to mind a carnival, and even AAPS did a dubstep…
By now, all these CUZ ME PAIN artists should be blurring together right? To some degree they are, though the synths and muffled vocals the majority of the young label’s artists use aren’t dissolving into samey goo. Rather, they’ve managed to create a label-wide style that each act tinkers with in their own way. Jesse…
By now CUZ ME PAIN records has shaken off the bedroom-pop tag the earliest tracks coming out of their roster. Though that description isn’t entirely misleading – the artists associated with the label probably are patching together music next to their beds, and their sounds definitely carry the sense of loneliness that comes with such…