New year, new Music Alliance Pact post! Why not continue adjusting to 2012 with the help of the following songs, selected by music blogs based all around the world. For MAP this go around, Make Believe Melodies chose ferocious Tokyo rockers Praha Depart and their song “Portrait Man” (which placed #36 in our top songs…
40. Nanba Shiho’s “Kodona No Kaidan” Because Sakanaction needed even more praise this year – that group’s lead singer Ichiro Yamaguchi helped produce this single, which explains why this sounds so exciting and different from most whizzing-and-whirring idol pap in 2011. The opening synths icicles bring to mind “Rookie,” and the dance-centric beat was all…
Lucky lucky Europeans…ignoring things like economic collapse and drug-resistant infections, folks in that continent have the chance to see Tokyo psych rockers Praha Depart play live for the next two weeks. Even more jealousy inducing, those who wisely head out to the group’s show will have the chance to buy a mini-album titled Dot. that…
The first new song posted on Praha Depart’s MySpace is the nine-minute “dot.” It’s a little bit misleading. That long-running track is plenty spectacular – though the manic cowbell-assisted beat and groove of the whole thing wow, it’s the at-times-screamed vocals that bring up images of Bjork in our heads that steals the show –…
Though the furthest physical distance I often travel while writing is to the refrigerator to grab a Kraft Single to nibble on (the life of a blogger!), I do take on all sorts of endless journeys across the Internet, specifically the wasteland known as MySpace, in order to find exciting Japanese music. For the most…