World’s End Girlfriend don’t keep things simple. The project’s new song “Meguri” clocks in at nearly ten minutes, and finds Katsuhiko Maeda crafting a dramatic slow burner. The first half is all build — Maeda arranges strings and piano to create a dizzying climb upward, pretty but also a touch unsettling. It’s when the electric…
Virgin Babylon Records has had one of those banner years a label can only dream of, so it’s fitting that the guy running the whole operation gets in on it too. Katsuhiko Maeda’s World’s End Girlfriend project has a new album out — their first in six years — at the end of the month,…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfG_G2O2q40″] Up to this moment I didn’t know much about World’s End Girlfriend. Well, I had assumptions…back in my school days I knew I guy REALLY into post-rock. Naturally, he was a film major. “Hey man, you like Explosions In The Sky?” I sure did. “Check out this band called World’s End Girlfriend, they are…