[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-haZ2I6ywis”] So is this what it sounds like when the often glee-oozing Sebastian X tackle a ballad? Not quite…they aren’t Ayumi Hamasaki-ing it up for the song “Rose Garden, Baby Blue” from forthcoming full-length Futures (say that really fast). Yet the group’s standard-operating kitchen sink sound has been slowed a bit here, sparkling piano coupled…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2C9iWWPwtA”] Mop Of Head are a four-piece instrumental band from Tokyo. I’ve never actually mentioned them on this blog before, but wrote something up about them and their debut album Retronix for The Japan Times today. Read it here! As the story mentions, these dudes are all over the place with their influences, though nearly…
Indie pop can be a strange mistress. I’ve gone on record as declaring I’m hopelessly doomed to love twee-leaning music probably for the rest of my life. Yet, contrary to the amount of posts tagged “twee” on this here web log, I’m not googly-eyed over every single cutesy band. Sometimes this sorta wimpy stuff can…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-m0lagT8FE”] I’m going to pretend Miila And The Geeks ran with this concept because if you aren’t paying attention it sometimes sounds like she’s saying “chew what you want” instead of, you know, the actual lyrics. Enjoy the gluttonous clip above, as lead singer Moe has various foodstuffs crammed into her face. All while one…
[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…