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miaou

It's Love

Toe.

Ippei Matsui

TEAPI

also, MONO and ENVY. but that's harder stuff

mono is just postrock. there's nothing hard about it. toe is cool postrock.

also that guy has shugo tokumaru in his friend list. yay.

and by that guy i mean ippei matsui. also tenniscoats :D also eastern youth :D

Okay some more bands to check out.

win a sheep free, shugo tokumaru, ajico, dr. strangelove, fishmans, isato nakagawa, keiichi sokabe, lily chou-chou, petty booka, salon music, seiichi yamamato, sakana

yesh... i went through my bands to pick a bunch out~



definitely not off the top of my heads

I ripped all the music off that ippei matsui guy. really enjoyed him but couldn't find his music. anyway...


http://www.sendspace.com/file/9d04xg

I beg to differ quite a lot. Mono can, and does, get quite fucking heavy and noisy at times.

well, i must have missed that.

i mean it depends. yeah you could call them that. although i know bands hate being called post-rock, cause there's no such thing. but their albums differ. You Are There is a bit slower i guess and spacey, although that too gets quite intense. But One More Step and You Die is fucking killer. that band it's love is great. check out LIFE on their page. their ep is amazing. also miaou, future pavilion

hm...these sounds a little too much like japanese bands trying to sound american. can you people recommend something that sounds more japanese?

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what exactly causes a band to sound american? ippei matsui sounds pretty unique.

The Pillows
The Seatbelts

I'm trying my best to forget the pillows. 4 sucky albums in a row and a rabid fanbase/forum has killed any desire to listen to them. I feel the same way about of montreal except for cherry peel.

Huh. I only have one album and wasn't even aware they had a fanbase, never mind one with rabies. I can't find much on them online, but it's been a while since I've checked.

Is Melt-banana worth checking out?

Have you seen All About Lily Chou Chou?

It's one of my favorites ever.

I guess it depends on whether you have an inclination toward or an aversion to noise-rock. If the latter is true, then I don't think I would suggest them to you. Otherwise, yes. They're very much worth checking out.

Scratch or Stitch is good. Try it.

Yeah I have only had limited exposure to them, two or three songs tops. I didn't love it, but it wasn't so bad for a genre that fosters some of the worst 'musical' endeavors. Thanks for the evaluation and go ahead, I'll look more deeply into their stuff.

My general attitude towards noise-rock/thrash/most things that end in 'core':

I don't mind it, maybe even like it, untill the vocals come in.

I think Mono and Elekibass are the only Japanese bands I even know.