[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEal8xIpG6I”] One of 2011’s herky-jerkiest spazz outs gets an official video. NOKIES’! “We Are News In The Dance Floor” does a solid Los Campesinos’! imitation, emulating that English bands suger-blasted indie-rock down to the all-together-now shouting. The clip above, though, fails to match the song’s head-first rush, as it mostly just ends up being a…
Turns out the Salyu-Cornelius project won’t be a rehash of Bjork’s Medulla. Early previews and descriptions hinted at an album using the J-Pop singer’s voice as a base, but newly released song “Muse’ic” reveals that won’t be entirely the case. Here the structure comes courtesy of Cornelius’ bright keyboard hiccups, popping up in every corner….
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBcrQ8-GvF0″] Creepy black and white! Weird images! Random words flashing on screen! Plus explosions! See it above in the new Molice video.
None of this computes whatsoever. Young Tokyo Band who released a good albeit far from overwhelming mini-album in 2010 returns the following year by covering a wretch-worthy J-Rock song from the 80s. They handle said slab of cheese pretty carefully, delivering a version of this two-decades-old tune that simultaneously hovers closely to the source material…
In the same way Joaquin Phoenix stuck to his gimmick of being a crazy person for the entire filming of I’m Still Here, Kinoco Hotel cling to their femme-fatale “hotel staff” routine in the video for “Hijō Naru Yoake.” The group still wears their signature bell-hop outfits (in gold this time around) while performing said…