Post-Cuz-Me-Pain band Wooman has a new album out next week, and “Sun” hints that they are just a touch more focused this time around. Early releases from this fuzz-accented project embraced a garage-centered playfulness balanced out by some of the shadowy tension of their younger days, with songs feeling seconds away from zipping into chaos….
I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for music that conjures up memories of the 2011 and 2012 Japanese indie rock community, when Hotel Mexico put their spin on chillwave and the entire CUZ ME PAIN universe offered an unsettling merger between dance and rock. Naturally, the one group left to emerge from…
The throwback vibes of earlier Wooman songs have receded with “Still Inside,” the post-CUZ ME PAIN band project of several prominent names in the Tokyo indie scene. The fuzz remains, but rather than an Ariel-Pink-ish (or Hotel Mexico-like) shambling, “Still Inside” finds the group hollering off in the distance, the verses and hook practically shouted…
A few months after releasing a cassette tape, Tokyo’s Wooman have a proper album out soon on Her Heads Record called Lost Love. It includes a lot of the group’s initial numbers, but also adds new cuts such as “Faint Dream,” a chugging number featuring the same unnerving, muffled vocals that defined earlier releases (and…
With Jesse Ruins finished and the CVN project…well, nothing out right now, the Faron-Square-plus-one band Wooman currently stands as the most prominent CUZ ME PAIN project going. The fuzz-loving band recently released their first cassette tape, featuring six songs. Two previously released cuts made the tape, but the rest is new, highlighted by the slowly…