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LISTEN TO IT 114-115: ASIAN POST-ROCK WILL SAVE THE WORLD
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