Cubismo Grafico Five Half Dozen Not the actual artwork, but a filler photo. A lot of artists behind great albums in 2010 came back with impressive EPs in 2011, highlighted by She Talks Silence and Puffyshoes (well, I guess that was a mini album). Half Dozen isn’t quite in the same league, more of an…
Dorian Studio Vacation The Patrick-Nagel-referencing artwork above should clue you in – Dorian LOVES the 80s. But not in a Michael Ian Black sort of way, where jokes about Alf stretch into the three-minute range. Dorian is neither combing the depths of that neon-splashed era for ironic yucks…though he has a sense of humor about…
“Hi. You’ve just got a mail that is an electrical-sound letter from a trio who’s going to rock you.” So begins Osaka techrock trio Nuxx’s sophomore full-length Lettre Mois, delivered in borderline MacSpeak before launching into the album proper. In most cases, this would be a toss-away intro, a silly little bit meant to maybe…
Welp, it’s now September and we’ve completely failed to talk about a handful of great (and not so great!) Japanese albums. Massive, massive failure on my part, especially after I went and named uhhhhh June “Stuff We Missed Month” before not getting through anything. Yet with the time fast approaching when nerds like me put…
A common complaint thrown at…or, in a lot of cases, a clever way of justifying a legit enjoyment of…J-Pop trio Perfume is all their success comes courtesy of producer Yasutaka Nakata. The line goes that you could stick any three women in the roles held by the current members, and Nakata’s whizz-bang 80’s fetishism/production would…