I'm usually not a fan of bands that have to get all cuddly wuddly on the name thing. All those acts named after feathered unicorns and rainbow dreamcatchers? You need caffeine just to read their names anymore, let alone listen to the music. But something about Softboiled Eggies caught first my eye, and then my ear. Sure the name's pretty silly. But the humor in the title is slightly more offbeat than the Trapper-Keeper visuals that've been used up and out in the past decade. Plus, this band is o
Like Stereolab and Cornelius, Robert Edwin is fluent in loungy space pop. But the Japanese (or Japan-based? not sure which) electronic artist doesn't like to keep the surface of his sound very smooth. He rips up chunks of post-rock, free jazz, funk, and hip-hop, throwing all their jagged edges into his mix so they stick out at unexpected angles. The resulting tracks sound like groovy robots on a lot of acid, machines that are shaking the loose wires until sparks fly. Edwin has a number of tunes
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