Do all the little-girl singers sound alike to you? Is the Anime Music Tournament making you sleepy? Here’s something to wake you up. (If you’re prone to seizures, don’t click.)
If all you know about Japanese rock is what you hear in anime, you’re missing most of the best. Someday I’ll write about the bands I’ve discovered, from Happy End and the Sadistic Mika Band to Melt-Banana and Tatsuya Yoshida’s various projects. In the meantime, here’s an article about and an interview with Melt-Banana.
We Have Signal: MELT-BANANA from We Have Signal on Vimeo.
If you find Yako’s vocals hard to take, try thinking of her voice as a percussion instrument.
(Via Clear and Refreshing.)
After hearing that splendid bit of cacophony, I dialed over to YT and happened upon something called “Outro for Cell-Scape HQ,” a ten-minute Atari serenade that couldn’t possibly be by the same band, except for the fact that it is.