Good week for indie-pop darlings in Tokyo jumping up to bigger labels. For Tracy Hyde — who used to count Lovely Summer Chan as a member, just to tie that last link back to this — will be releasing their first full-length album in early December, and ahead of it they’ve shared “Favourite Blue.” True…
Well, “new” in the sense that it is a different recording of an already existing For Tracy Hyde song. “Shady Lane Sherbet” originally appeared on the band’s 2012 debut EP Juniper And Lamplight, and was an early highlight among the group’s more straightforward indie-rock songs – “Sherbet” embraced dreaminess, bouncing ahead rather driving forward. All…
Editors Note: My computer has been fixed, and everything works amazingly now! Back to the music! For Tracy Hyde’s latest album, the In Fear Of Love EP, is currently available only as a physical release…with very little beyond a crossfade demo version. That preview, though, gives all the folks who prefer digital media (or, uhhhhh,…
The first three songs on For Tracy Hyde’s All About Ivy are lovely indie-pop numbers. They continue the sound the group has been mostly working with over the past year, guitar-pop topped off by vocals sung in Japanese. There are individual elements in each song that jump out as especially impressive – the drumming in…
For Tracy Hyde has expanded a bit – they’ve grown in number of members, which I saw at a live show they played recently. Despite a rise in the number of folks in the band, new song “Small Town, Summer Rain” still sounds like For Tracy Hyde. It’s a peppy indie-pop song…crucially, sang in Japanese…accented…