This week's top bands are definitely 神聖かまってちゃん and amazarashi.
Maybe I was in a mood for something with keyboards this week after finding amazarashi.
amazarashi is definitely one of those slower keyboard based Japanese piano rock bands. Quite different from the other same genre bands too.
As for 神聖かまってちゃん... What can I say about them?! They're totally different!! They're like the SEX PISTOLS meet Supercar meet D.W. ニコルス. I'm not joking!! Their music is like happy keyboard based, with extremely distorted Sex Pistol-ish vocals. So go figure! Surprisingly (or maybe not!) I really enjoyed listening to this band!
Anyway as for the other bands checked out this week:
Maybe I was in a mood for something with keyboards this week after finding amazarashi.
amazarashi is definitely one of those slower keyboard based Japanese piano rock bands. Quite different from the other same genre bands too.
As for 神聖かまってちゃん... What can I say about them?! They're totally different!! They're like the SEX PISTOLS meet Supercar meet D.W. ニコルス. I'm not joking!! Their music is like happy keyboard based, with extremely distorted Sex Pistol-ish vocals. So go figure! Surprisingly (or maybe not!) I really enjoyed listening to this band!
Anyway as for the other bands checked out this week:
THE NOVEMBERS
- ok, I knew about them a year or two ago but didn't quite like the first album i checked out so... KINDA MISS OUT ON THEM!!! ごめんね！
Anyway, I like their sound. They have quite mellow slow post-rock songs. Not those experimental type of post-rock (not shoegaze).. Sounds quite mellow and melancholic, actually!
WALKABOUT
Got them from my last.fm neighbor too... They're one of those melodic western sounding rock bands, quite poppish, actually, and sound pretty much mainstream... VERY radio friendly tracks. I wonder why they're like really unknown, despite having been around for quite awhile.
THE NOVELS
Ok, I actually knew this band last year when I was in Japan and checking out the albums of the bands playin the Shimokita Roundup 2 in Tower Records. I was considering to buy their album, but ended up not doing so... But it's now online... Downloaded awhile ago but didn't properly check them out.
They have tracks that sound ALOT ALOT ALOT like The Pillows. They have other track that are quite punk-rock-ish... Japanese punk-rock-ish.. Quite a good band, great potential to release a great album in the future, definitely.
They have tracks that sound ALOT ALOT ALOT like The Pillows. They have other track that are quite punk-rock-ish... Japanese punk-rock-ish.. Quite a good band, great potential to release a great album in the future, definitely.
YUEY
Hmmm... quite a good band, not much stuff out there but... they're like one of those Japanese Japanese indie rock bands. (Yes, meaning their sounds are Japan-ish... not Western).
ナイスマーブルス (Nice Marbles)
- FINALLY get to check out this band!!! Their album "Real" was on the top rated albums of 2009 on many of the Japanese indie/rock fans' list!!
A melodic pop rock band with both western and Japanese sounds. I've yet to check out "Real". So, more on this band later!
A melodic pop rock band with both western and Japanese sounds. I've yet to check out "Real". So, more on this band later!
カフカ
Yes!! Kafka!!!! I wanted to check this band out soooooooo much 3 months ago!! Like when I wanted to check out androp and 神聖かまってちゃん. Couldn't find anything back then but luck had it, someone loaded an album this week itself!!!
Hmmm Kafka... Not as rock as I would have expected from my last.fm neighbor's usual taste... They're quite indie-rock, actually, with a splice of mellower indie rock sounds...
サクラメリーメン
This group was on my last.fm's neighbor's top bands this week. They're actually more on the pop side of rock than rock itself. Really radio friendly too... Sounds like mainstream pop rock band... like Walkabout.
COLORS DEPARTMENT
YES! This is the second (or next??) band of the vocalist of Co.in. I ALMOSTTTTTTT!!! got to check out their live last year but alas, missed the date by a day!!!
So anyway, this band has a mixture of the typical Japanese indie-rock sounds with a sprinkle of "western sound" than most japanese indie-rock bands...
OOOOO that said!! FINALLY GOT D.W.ニコルズ debut album! ONELBUM! Again, D.W.ニコルズ, doesn't fail to deliver, happy acoustic rock tracks!!! Good release D.W.ニコルズ! Definitely looking forward to more positive vibes from this band!
Actually it's kinda sad I didn't get to check out these bands that I knew about a few months ago until now!!! sigh... But better late than never, I guess!
