Electronica

Song of the Day

ASOBI SEKSU
Me & Mary

Me & Mary

It’s been a while since I’ve found any shoegazey stuff that popped my cork, but when I heard Asobi Seksu had just released a new album, I was all over it. The Brooklyn-based duo (sometimes quartet), fronted by Yuki Chikudate, has followed up their previous album, Citrus, with another collection of electronic fuzz & shimmery vocals, reminiscent of The Cocteau Twins, with a bit of amped-up Blonde Redhead and My Bloody Valentine tossed in for good measure. The new songs have a familiar feel to them, but they’re bigger…more complex…than the bands previous work. I love this stuff! Check out Asobi Seksu on their MySpace page.

Song of the Day

FAUNTS
Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.

DOWNLOAD: Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.

It’s been barely two weeks since I dropped a leak from the new Faunts album on The List, but now that Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. has come out, I really need to push my electro-homeboys from Edmonton a little harder by offering up the title track. I said then that these guys had me thinking of the first Depeche Mode album, Speak & Spell, with the frenetic synthesizers and Tim Batke’s spare, minimalistic vocal, and maybe it’s because they sound a lot like the 80’s electro-pop bands I grew up listening to, but I can’t stop playing this album. I’m sure some of you run in the opposite direction when anything resembling electronica crosses your path, but trust me…this is uncontrived, melodic and well crafted pop that deserves a look. Check out Faunts at MySpace

Song of the Day

PROJECT JENNY, PROJECT JAN
Pins & Needles (featuring Fujiya & Miyagi)

DOWNLOAD: Pins & Needles (featuring Fujiya & Miyagi)

I don’t drop nearly as much electronica on The List as I have in the past, but when I heard that Project Jenny, Project Jan are set to drop a new EP (that features a whole mess of other electro-artists, including Adam Matta, Mixel Pixel, One Watt Sun and the amazing knob-twiddlers from Brighton featured on this song, Fujiya & Miyagi), I had to search it out. With it’s fast-paced, jumpy percussion and scatter-shot lyric, this song should fit nicely onto your aerobic workout playlist. The Colors EP is out April 14th, but you can check out the Brooklyn boys right now over on MySpace