Shugo Tokumaru’s Port Entropy recently came out in America and Europe, which means Western media who give him any notice will be reviewing his fifth LP in the coming days/weeks. Pitchfork struck first, with writer Jayson Greene kinda slamming Shugo with a 6.2, as he dropped lines like “prolonged exposure to Tokumaru’s flights of fancy…
Gotta give Pitchfork credit where credit is due – the dudes over at that site are on their new releases. I had no idea Boris teamed up with the Cult’s Ian Astbury, and that this dynamic pairing released a four-song EP called BXI recently. Keeping track of the ever-prolific Boris isn’t an easy task, so…
I was reading old Pitchfork reviews during a lull at work today (because what else would one do during a stretch of boredom) and got to some old Polysics write-ups. Nearly everyone begs the same question – why haven’t the spazzy New Wavers broken through to more acclaim in America? And, as the group recently…
Pitchfork just finished up their Top 200 Albums of the 2000s list today and only two Japanese albums from the past ten years placed – Boris’ Akuma no Uta (#197) and Boredoms’ Vision Creation Newsun (#39, but should be higher in this writer’s humble opinion). I realize the folks over at the ‘Fork needed to…