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I’ve been intermittently tracking Tokyo’s KILDREN for a little while now, both because I like their music and because I’ve found their ongoing identity evolution interesting to watch. To recap, their first singles in Spring 2024 placed them firmly on the pop side of the J-gaze spectrum, but a year later they scrubbed those songs […]
I was pretty keen on Tokyo’s KILDREN last year based on a handful – or fingerful, really – of songs released last April that carried the torch of For Tracy Hyde-influenced J-gaze-pop high and proud. Well perhaps the band weren’t quite so proud after all. They returned almost a year later this past April with […]
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 […]
