For the weekend, a new song from Teen Runnings! It finds them creating beach-side fuzz rock that just bops along…until you start zeroing in on the lyrics, which reveal a slightly less pleasant day by the sea. Highlights one of their best attributes, which is the ability to sound cheery as heck but conceal a…
For most of their existence, Teen Runnings (formerly Friends) coated their surf-rock in feedback and distortion, an intentional move meant to fracture what was otherwise warm nostalgia for a time the group never lived through. New demo track “Sightseeing” initially offers up a bit of a departure for the group – it sounds super clear….
Teen Runnings have teamed up with California indie-pop band Sea Lions on a new split release called Home Recordings. Neotomic Records!, who write that they are “purveyors of indie and bedroom pop,” are releasing Home Recordings as a limited-run cassette. On the Teen Runnings side of things, this split features a handful of demo songs…
Tokyo trio Teen Runnings will be releasing a CD version of last year’s Let’s Get Together Again – an LP that hit shelves when the group was still known as Friends – on August 8, featuring a few new songs. In advance of that release, the group have a new, surf-filled video for the song…
Vancouver-based blog Hearing Gold put together a special compilation titled Vacation Spirit in advance of the summer months. They write that these are “15 exclusive songs documenting the sounds of a blissful summer as personally expressed by their respective artists.” One of the contributors is Japan’s Teen Runnings, a trio that seems pretty well-suited to…