Well, maybe it won’t. But it seems the more interesting new music releases I’ve come across in the last few months fit that description.
First there’s Tricot, a math-rock band from Japan who has released their second EP, Kabuku. The angular jazz chords and shifting time-signatures are kind of standard, but it’s the multi-layered vocals that help Tricot stand out, for my money.
Here’s the lead-off single, “Setsuyakuka”:
And then you have Korean band Jambinai, which combines traditional Korean folk instruments with post-rock, heavy metal and hip-hop. The result is surprisingly hypnotic and surreal.
Here’s the closing track from their second album, A Hermitage, out now:
To defy the laws of tradition,
This is dF
First there’s Tricot, a math-rock band from Japan who has released their second EP, Kabuku. The angular jazz chords and shifting time-signatures are kind of standard, but it’s the multi-layered vocals that help Tricot stand out, for my money.
Here’s the lead-off single, “Setsuyakuka”:
And then you have Korean band Jambinai, which combines traditional Korean folk instruments with post-rock, heavy metal and hip-hop. The result is surprisingly hypnotic and surreal.
Here’s the closing track from their second album, A Hermitage, out now:
To defy the laws of tradition,
This is dF