Only a few days into 2012 and already we have a great release on the board. CUZ ME PAIN artist Nites, which is the alter ego of recent Captured Tracks signing Jesse Ruins, dropped a free EP onto Bandcamp today. Carcass Of The Sun collects a couple of older Nites tunes alongside what appear to…
Man, shoegaze has got it rough nowadays. Since we haven’t reached the point where a revival in that sorta stuff is appropriate yet, anything labelled as “shoegazey” or “dreamy” tends to get ignored or smacked down the same way boring “indie” rock is. Yet Foster The People don’t get a Tumblr devoted to how shitty…
The ever-prolific Kyoto space-brain Madegg’s latest number, “Parasol,” comes off as more straightforward than some of his other recent material. It still contains the Brainfeeder-leaning spaciness that should get Flying Lotus to make the dude official Japanese resident for the label, but it’s not quite as wormhole-ready, something a bit simpler to understand. “Parasol” is…
It’s super tempting to call Tokyo artist ELEN NEVER SLEEPS “shoegaze,” mainly because dude offered the world a cover of My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep.” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2OuzjMp4Ws”] ELEN NEVER SLEEPS certainly boasts characteristics of that sound, but even his take on the Loveless classic reveals something a bit more complex. There are traces of “hipster…
Hotel Mexico have teamed up with Diesel to…wait a sec, Diesel? The people who make jeans and goofy belts? I’ll bite my tongue and repeat the mantra “this is good for indie rock, this is good for indie rock” as I inform you Kyoto’s most well-known chillwavers have made new song “Dear Les Friends” available…