I've been obsessing over this Japanese group the last few days.
They're prolific, for sure. They appear to have no cut-off point. Masses of albums, singles and live albums released over the last decade attest to this. They straddle genres - noisy, for the most part: rock - with an alarming lack of embarrassment. It's like that explosion of a reference of female-led punk I linked to a few months back, only with GO!GO!7188 taking up the entire side of a mix-tape by themselves. Sometimes, they'll turn in a set of covers that reminds me wonderfully of my ancient Scots trash sweethearts The Rezillos. Others, they'll be like an appallingly bad, radio-friendly version of Brisbane's own I Heart Hiroshima or Skunk Anansie or someone (if only for the ridiculously high vocals). Others, they're verging on Ecstatic Peace territory.
And then they'll turn in something like this...
Bangs alive.
Great stuff.
ReplyDeletei saw them play live. they were enjoyable, but the drummer was really crap and annoying and kind of ruined it a bit.
ReplyDeleteThey are a great live band and have a loyal fan base but it sucks that they don't receive the recognition they deserve because of the fact they are labeled as a girl-band! They are one of the best to come out of Japan in the past 10 years, along with Yura Yura Teikoku, Qururi, and the Zazen Boyz in my opinion.
ReplyDeletesomething a bit dreamier ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euem1rEdQaE&feature=related
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ReplyDeleteMartin Pete Vincelli
Very Cool!
20 July at 02:10 · Like ·