Indie-poppish outfit The Insect Kids realize that one song just isn’t enough in this buys, music-stuffed world of ours. So here they are dropping two new tracks – in the form of one big night-cruising video – for your listening pleasure. It has been a wild since Make Believe Melodies checked in with The Insect…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWiUm5rOup0″] Here’s a new track from The Insect Kids, the horn-assisted shambler “ASTRA.” The singing, like on previous Insect Kids’ singles, remains might unpolished and is either going to be alluring or a roadblock, though the female chorus sounds quite catchy. The appeal of “ASTRA” lies with the the manic instrumentation, a dizzy rush reminiscent…
Gauging the political intentions of music in Japan can be tricky, especially when you rely on Google Translate and Firefox extensions to figure out what’s going on. Plenty of artists can be direct about their stances, and in the wake of this year’s nuclear situation a handful of anti-nuclear-power songs appeared albeit far from the…
Sometimes, music just falls between the cracks. It’s a damn shame when those out-of-sight tunes end up being really great. The Insect Kids posted a couple of new, stripped down indie-pop jams at some point this year, and I completely didn’t notice them until today. Whoooops! These new tunes appear to be on a forthcoming…
Tokyo quartet The Insect Kids play the sort of sun-spotted ’60s rock where having a chorus of nothing but “la la las” isn’t detrimental. It’s great, simple no-guilt pop. Here’s “City Lights,” which features a sweet breezy flute running through most of the track. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJVcrnHw0mE&hl=en&fs=1&] The Insect Kids have a new album out this Friday…