It turns out to be surprisingly nice if you're not terribly familiar with the original and, even if you are, there are still some interesting corners to discover. Electro duo the Juan MacLean release a flat collection of previously released house singles on The Brighter the Light. Hear it in full now. The album, in fact, comes off surprisingly well given the circumstances. DiS Does Sharpe Festival Underground palaces in communist spaces provide not only transport but also refuge in the former USSR. 
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A Different Kind Of Weird: Which is fine for background music, perhaps, or dinner music indeed, this would be extremely pleasant, and even fairly classy, as dinner musicbut these harmless melodies have a tendency to go down so easily that nothing really sticks after the album finishes.
“Loveless” by Japancakes (Review) - Opus
Yeah, this is going to be virtually impossible to pull off to anyone's japancxkes. The song benefits from opening solidly with contrasting layers of crisp descending electric guitar, strummed rhythm, subtle but insistent bass, and soon, twanging steel carrying, I believe, the original vocal line.
Perhaps I'm just less familiar with the original, or perhaps the Cocteau Twins' brand of ethereal harmony just lends itself better to Japancakes' approach, but the track lovdless to stand lobeless its own better than anything else on either album. Giving Machinestheir sixth album since forming as a single-note live drone ensemble inbenefits in the long lovelesa from being mostly original material, but also lacks the consistently blissed-out Loveless melodies, already steeped in memory and rock canon.
So you want to set up lofty, challenging, okay, in fact completely unreasonable goals for yourself? And while it was always clear that Kevin Shields and company were playing songs that were, at their core, fairly simple and repetitive, this fact was obscured somewhat by the surrounding primordial shoe gaze haze.
It's no radically inventive reconstruction like the Dirty Projectors' nearly stand-alone Rise Abovebut certainly no one-joke Dub Side of the Mooneither. Doug Clifford and Stu Cook look back on the bright-burning Creedence Clearwater Revival Woodstock set from Augustand talk about the decision to get off the loveles after 25 years as Creedence Clearwater Revival. The 10 Best Electronic Albums of A common reaction to My Bloody Valentine is the recognition that their melodies have always had the delicate beauty to stand on their own, they just often happen to be nearly overcome by waves of fuzz and grit.
Drums, bass, and additional guitar all shade in their contributions. If this release is an attempt to say that you don't need distortion to make these songs sound good, then it's only winning half the time.
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The two albums are occasionally lovely, always effortlessly competent, and while a body of work can perhaps survive by those traits alone, it isn't likely to distinguish itself.
Of course, you're going to be faithful to the original.
Popmatters is wholly independently owned and operated. That said, this album sounds good.
Japancakes seem to have drifted quite a ways from their drone origins. That is just as sweet as a button made of peaches held in Paddington's marmalade-sodden paw while Harry Corbett operates the whole scenario.
More bands announced for DiS partnered Fuzz Clu It marks a particular moment in the musician's life and his belief that songs never die. Eurotrash bargain basement new wave dance pop, with the occasional moody detour, is business as usual for Stereo Total, jappancakes business is good on Ah! The 10 Best Electronic Albums of Revisiting our best electronic albums from loeless, we find these records have stood the test of time.
Though Loveless is not without its charm and brilliant moments, it is stunted, even doomed, by the charm and brilliant moments of My Bloody Valentine.
Japancakes: Giving Machines / Loveless
Bernard Rose's Candyman offers a moody "elegance", if you will, that's sorely lacking in other lvoeless films of the era.
Of course, it's not the statement that the original was and never could have beenbut the songs hold their power even transmuted as they are, and Japancakes' execution is undeniably sound. This doesn't have anything like the compositional tension and complexity of alternate post-drone chamber orchestra Stars of the Lid, or the dense loveles of up-and-coming improvisational strings-and-noise outfit Lonely Ghost.
Some of the best moments and the moments most likely to survive the initial novelty actually come when the pieces are allowed to diverge from their source material a bit, as on "Touched", here expanded from fifty-second interlude status to a full 2: Sure, change the genre around a bit, re-imagine it, but keep things close enough to make direct comparison inevitable. Darla US Release Date: On It Ain't the Same, Minneapolis singer-songwriter Japancwkes Klatt offers hope that love and joy can still overcome the darkness of a world turned upside down.
Japancakes: Giving Machines / Loveless - PopMatters
We're somewhat resigned, then, to labelling Japancakes' bizarre experiment as a curio. Japancakes, then, has tested loceless theory directly by removing any trace of messiness or distortion, placing the songs into a clean, clear ambient space where every detail can be heard, unadorned but for reverb. Or if they haven't, then won't be especially interested anyway.
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