What separates the 2012 incarnations manic noisemakers Polysics and EeL? Both made vital albums of spazzy rock in the early 2000’s, unpredictable stuff that kept you focused on the noises bam-powing into your headphones. Both acts also pretty much do the same thing now as they did in 2004. Yet whereas, at some point, Polysics…
In which pop-spazz EeL looks at all the people disappointed in the forced zaniness of last year’s For Common People by giving them something truly zany and out of nowhere, a cover of “All That She Wants.” OK, she probably didn’t pay any attention to the folks let down by her last album, but her…
It’s Christmas Eve in Japan, and a handful of artists are getting into the spirit with special sonic holiday gifts or mixes. Rap-happy duo Love And Hates celebrate the most wonderful time of the year in typical Love And Hates fashion – by covering a song called “I Wanna Kill.” To their credit, they add…
Ryoma Maeda, working under the name Milch Of Source, has worked as the producer on scatter-brained-pop artist EeL’s latest albums. On one end of the spectrum, he contributed to the mess that was her 2011 album For Common People, a collection of songs spinning around like a tea cup ride for no reason other than…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjxLMsplDA”] Let’s take this introductory paragraph to remember how hyper-pop artist EeL’s earlier-this-year album For Common People landed with a technicolor thud. That full length turned her formerly charming restlessness into predictable chore, the wacky kid in the class realizing everyone else expects him to act that way now and thus always acting “wacky.” For…