Just as Kinoko Teikoku spawned a generation of Japanese emo-shoegaze bands, I think we’re starting to see the legacy of For Tracy Hyde and their hyper-melodic, nostalgia-soaked ethos, manifest itself in a new wave of J-gaze bands. One of them is Tokyo’s KILDREN, whose debut single last year is a six-minute sugarblast of noise and melody across two tracks, one of which has a VHS-style video (or maybe it’s actually shot on VHS – goodness knows there’s camcorders aplenty in the local Hard Off), documenting a day of random wandering around Tokyo, just in case it wasn’t immediately clear where their aesthetic comes from.

They’ve only got three officially released songs, but Tokyo livehouse documentarian Angel’s Channel has a live version of “Sundance” from this past Spring, along with a couple of other new songs yet to be committed to tape so if this is scratching an itch, head over for some more.