I talked to Turntable Films’ lead singer Yosuke Inoue for The Japan Times about their new album Small Town Talk, and it was published today (well in the physical paper). In a good bit of timing, they shared the video for the song “Light Through,” which you can watch above. Small Town Talk is definitely…
This is not the first time Turntable Films have been infatuated with the Rainbow State. On their 10 Days Plus One album from 2011, the then-quartet wrote a song called “Hawaii” that was a lazy appreciation of beach-bum rock. It was slow, full of whistling and could have been a Jack Johnson jam in another…
Today in The Japan Times, you can check out a story I wrote about Turntable Films, Predawn and a host of other exciting folk-leaning artists in Japan today. I’ll let the article do the talking. Since we are here, let me give a rapid-fire review of Yellow Yesterday, Turntable Film’s proper debut album. It’s really…
Last we heard from Kyoto’s Turntable Films, they were embracing a more muted sound on the disappointing 10 Days Plus One mini album, clumsy folk and awful attempts at Nashville swagger drowning out the few good ideas they had. The halcyon days of “2steps” seemed lost, traded in for a boring approach better suited for…
40. Nanba Shiho’s “Kodona No Kaidan” Because Sakanaction needed even more praise this year – that group’s lead singer Ichiro Yamaguchi helped produce this single, which explains why this sounds so exciting and different from most whizzing-and-whirring idol pap in 2011. The opening synths icicles bring to mind “Rookie,” and the dance-centric beat was all…