[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHpbmE3RPoE”] The video for Osaka musician Oorutaichi’s “Moeru Himitsu” features various crudely filmed scenes of everyday life edited together in nearly nonsensical order, creating a weird clip where ordinary shots of orange juice and chickens take on a slightly disturbing appearance. It’s kinda like that one Charlotte Gainsbourg video without all the quirky indie bullshit…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPAVU89cgg”] I once brushed off Halcali as typical cutesy stupid J-Pop. Based on a very brief listen to the rap-pop duo’s 2010 album…well, the first track of it anyway…I decided I didn’t need to spend any significant time with this. Then a funny thing happened – karaoke. Two friends sang an endearingly goofy Japanese track…
Not a lot happens over the course of “大停電の夜に’s” six minutes. The members of cero show no signs of being in rush, sprawling out and letting the waves of guitar simply hover along save for a few light solo stretches late in the song. This isn’t the musical equivalent of wasting a Saturday afternoon burning…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRhqTO2GODU”] One of the standout blasts of indie-pop from Hideki Kaji And Riddim Saunter’s 2010 team-up…liked around these parts…gets a video. Watch the dudes play around above.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiZF3sgiHo4″] Remember last week when I wondered aloud about The Mirraz ability to swallow sounds up like Kirby and imitate them pretty well? Now they’ve gone and released another video for the title track of their just-in-stores album and…hypothesis proved, I guess. “We Are The Fuck’N World” trades in the stadium-rock ambitions of their last…