Yesterday, Jesse Ruins announced they would be playing their final show ever on March 26. It is the end of an era in Japanese indie music, as the project stood at the top of a time when artists such as Hotel Mexico and Sapphire Slows were able to land on Western blogs…not a common feet….
In which the two sides of Jesse Ruins meet seamlessly in the middle. “IV” strikes a balance between the dance-inspired dream pop of Jesse Ruins early CUZ ME PAIN years with the more recent Heartless-era tension, wherein things are more deliberately rough. The end result is what the duo have been doing well for years…
It’s an origin story always worth revisiting, especially in light of “Mineral” — the Jesse Ruins project emerged from Tokyo’s CUZ ME PAIN crew, a collective of bedroom-centric producers who initially dabbled in dark dance music. Jesse Ruins grew into something else entirely — a duo, yeah, but also a musical outfit that explored a…
The structure of most of the songs on Jesse Ruin’s 2014 Heartless, in theory, lend themselves well to remix work. Many of the duo’s track were jittery, disruptive creations full of vocal skitters and suddenly jarring noises…they are a few creative tweaks away from being transformed into something more lively. Whether that’s actually a good…
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…