[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjc5x9h_Q4g”] A lot has changed for Tokyo’s CUZ ME PAIN label since they released their first compilation a few years back. AAPS called it a day, Jesse Ruins grabbed some blog love and got picked up by Captured Tracks, Lovers In The Wind remain a complete mystery and Melancholic Masculinity just goes by Masculin now….
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/29347569″] New Make Believe Mix for the month of November! Seemed like a very electronic month, highlighted by moody tracks courtesy of Sapphire Slows, Neon Cloud and The Beauty.Yet it wasn’t all woozy electronics, as evidenced by the noise-coated surf rock of Friends’ “Our Love Is True” off their recently released Let’s Get Together…
This one snuck out a couple weeks ago, but since we mark out for anything CUZ ME PAIN related in this corner of the Internet (with good reason!) let’s highlight the latest from The Beauty. “Littlebig” finds The Beauty continually pushing into more overt dance territory…the track gets slapped with the “disco” tag on Bandcamp…and…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dsmbm4mczU”] Talking about emotion in music is a tricky subject, because so often the writer secretly ends up projecting their feelings onto a song or album that could have come from an entirely different place. It’s an extreme example, but if you ever go to songmeanings.net to check out lyrics you’ll always find misguided, probably…
Remember the split cassette that recently came out on CUZ ME PAIN which caused us to gush about previously-unheralded bedroom popper Jesse Ruins? That entry mostly ignored the dude who nabbed the other side of the tape, THE BEAUTY. Now the all-caps artist has shared a new track from his end, called “Secret Diamond Deal.”…