Showing posts with label refraction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refraction. Show all posts

Friday, December 10, 2010

Secondhand sweet pop

Japanese pop bands have magical powers of refraction, taking original sources and bending them into sounds that range from a little disconcerting to very perverse. And they have a weird way of twisting memories of my adolescence. This tune sounds eerily like my first attempt at forming a band, from the excessive guitar effects to the drums that barely keep up. It's a game of telephone, weirdly imitating American teenagers weirdly imitating British '80s alt-rockers. I like how the guitar break is so perfect, dude plays twice exactly the same.