Just like the song list, I intend to share 25 albums almost surely overlooked by the West that I really enjoyed in the past year. Of course, I missed just as many great albums and a year from now I’ll probably regret/want to expand this. Yet these 25 albums definitely deserve your attention. 25. Hideki…
30. Salyu “新しいYES” A lot has changed since I first wrote about this song back on April 1st…I don’t know what chemicals I got slizzered on when I compared Salyu to Erykah Badu and Cosmogramma ran away with my “album of 2010” honors…but this track’s selling point stays the same. I can assure you no…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uT8vAsGp3s&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I have never seen The Neverending Story, putting me in a very sparse group of 20-somethings not holding fond memories of the film or pretending to have big ol’ nostalgic feelings for it. So, to me Miu Sakamoto’s video for “Silent Fiction” is just her showing off her dancing abilities while working a puppet…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z8z4sZjuy0&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Remember Discovery? The nobody-asked-for-this combination of the keyboardist from Vampire Weekend and the lead singer of Ra Ra Riot joined together to release one album which boasted one great song, a bunch of goofy electro-tinged stabs at R&B and one truly horrid cover of the Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back.” The band’s biggest…