Super Star Shore Trip: Slow Beach (Featuring Kai Takahashi, Twangy Twangy) Release Lover Lover

ByPatrick St. Michel

Slow Beach are a Japanese indie-pop supergroup of sorts – they feature Kai Takahashi and Twangy Twagny (a.k.a. Dai Ogasawara), but find both of them making surf-leaning music (see – the name). They’ve released their first album, called Lover Lover and you can get it for free here. Go do that! I’ll write more on…

New Ano(t)raks Compilation World Awake Featuring Buddy Girl And Mechanic, Ghostlight, Annie The Clumsy And More

ByPatrick St. Michel

Initially, it looked like netlabel Ano(t)raks was going to define itself as a destination for indie-pop music. Which it still very much does – the bulk of the artists appearing on their compilation albums over the past few months certainly skew towards the twee. Yet with latest various-artists collection World Awake, the fledgling label has…