Tokyo indie-pop unit Lake Michigan recently released a new EP, Frontier, and were gradually releasing each song off that set on to SoundCloud. Early returns looked pretty meh – the title track is a slow-burner that thinks a big guitar solo equals a payoff, while “Loveless” fares a bit better (the ending enters nice rush…
Indie-rock outfit Lake Michigan have a new album out at the very start of 2014…whoa, that’s right around the corner geez…and you can here a track from it now. “Kore Ga Adventure” is a skippy number that shines primarily thanks to the vocals, which rise above the indie-pop nature of the music and give “Kore…
On the surface level, Canata Records seems like a pretty rigid netlabel sonically. “We believe that freedom is pop,” goes one of the slogans on their Bandcamp page, and a cursory look at the artist names, album and song titles indicate the label deals mostly in twee. Yet what has made them one of the…