Programming Note: My computer died today (water on the keyboard…not good people!) so posts might be slightly more infrequent. Pray to whatever computer god you believe in for me, thanks. But hey…here are two songs about wanting to get away from everything for a bit, how timely. It’s becoming clear electro-diva MEG works best as…
Poor, poor MEG. She’s the J-Pop sibling doomed to average-ness, not nearly as popular as sister Perfume and not remotely as cool as brother Capsule. If techno-disco-pop mirrored a Wes Anderson film MEG would be the mediocre family member who isn’t even a glorious failure. Her latest full-length Maverick comes in the middle of the…
Another day, another Yasutaka Nakata-produced electro-pop track. At this point, every act Nakata touches ends up baring similar sonic hallmarks – no-free-space electronics joined by digitally manipulated vocals. Meg’s “Secret Adventure” single features all these markers and, like most of Nakata’s work with Perfume and Capsule, sounds like an absolute computer-generated ear worm. It’s not…