Here are two songs from the musical highlights of my life recently, Tokyo Jihen’s “Kyouiku.” The first is one of the big singles, a tune filled with life and urgency. The second is complicated and strange—and has the most interesting English lyrics I’ve ever heard from a Japanese artist.
Chris, if you’re out there, I know you’d love this stuff. I hope you’ve heard it.
I can just tell I’m going to get a little upload-happy with this dread power I’ve granted myself. But forget about that—do you realize that you have the most beautiful face? The Flaming Lips do, and they want you to know this, and some other things. Things about life and death.
This album, which I first heard in the friendly confines of Jake’s car back in the day, is totally undoing me. I think one reviewer compared it to what Radiohead’s “OK Computer” might’ve sounded like if Thom Yorke believed in God. I’ll go one further and suggest ol’ Thom would need to see God before he could do something this warm and wonderful.
Alright. I wrote an AppleScript that uploads files and generates the relevant markup for me, so it’s now trivially easy for me to post a song I’m digging and have y’all enjoy it. I even have a brand-new, irritatingly-named category for it. Here’s the first one, one of those rare epic hip-hop tracks, and it’s from my latest CD purchase.
You may expect the files to be deleted after about a week. Goyukkuri.