Biting Your Ear Until You Bleed: Tricot’s “G.N.S”

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrjCQ1eyjxs”] Describing music as “sexy” can often be a critical gambit, the sort of adjective that can project the wrong message if deployed without caution. A lot of times, “sexy” turns into shorthand for “look how hot the members of this particular musical outfit are,” which isn’t how anyone should be writing about music –…

Creepin: The Eglle

Tokyo’s The Eglle floats somewhere between the bad-weather pop of She Talks Silence and the gut-punching of Miila And The Geeks, and even then saying they fall between doesn’t seem accurate. Like the latter two bands, The Eglle’s music fills me with an unease that’s not easy to explain in writing – it’s not scary…