Monthly Archives: February 2012
Anisakis: Yoru no Yume Koso Makoto-san / Seoyogi no Senshu
Tokyo art-punks Anisakis have a new EP available to listen or download and after a period that saw the group reduced to a drum machine-driven duo and subsequently shift their sound away from the Monks-like garage-punk of their earlier material … Continue reading
Top 20 albums/EPs of 2011 (numbers 1-10)
Several days later than promised, but here’s the top ten of my Japanese music of 2011 (No.11-20 is here). Again, I’m allowing some Korean stuff if it’s a proper Japanese release, and again I’m not being fussy about what counts … Continue reading
Top 20 albums/EPs of 2011 (numbers 11-20)
It’s taken me a while to get round to posting this, partly because there were a few CDs I heard only towards the end of the year and I needed time to digest them, partly because I’m lazy, and partly … Continue reading
Bossston Cruizing Mania: Loaded, Lowdead, Rawdead
This review first appeared in Japanese on Goblin.mu No one could accuse Tokyo alternative/postpunk band Bossston Cruizing Mania of being wastefully prolific. “Loaded, Lowdead, Rawdead” emerges more than seven years after their third album, 2004′s “Comic/Saisei/Cynicism”, and coming up to … Continue reading
The Setting Sun: Tetsuya Komuro, Namie Amuro and How to Be a Girl
I’ve always had rather mixed feelings about Tetsuya Komuro. On the one hand, I blame him for in the late 80s and early 90s killing kayoukyoku and creating the ugly, lumbering beast that is J-Pop; his thin, tinny beats and … Continue reading
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