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Unofficial archival releases from beloved, departed bands is nothing new so at first I expected that this collection of early demos from Japanese shoegaze godheads Kinoko Teikoku was going to be some kind of sketchy, poor quality MySpace rip or something. Well colour me surprised to learn that The First Mini Demo Album is not […]
Since disbanding in 2019, Kinoko Teikoku have done a tremendous job of not giving fans any shred of hope about any further activities. Frontwoman Chiaki Satō has carved out a solo career that occasionally contains echoes of the visceral emo-gaze that made her old band so influential and beloved, but largely hews to pretty straight […]
I’ve mentioned before that my descent into the deep, bottomless rabbit hole of Japanese shoegaze began in early 2022 with For Tracy Hyde’s final record Hotel Insomnia, but navigating the scene over there – which goes back 15 to 30 years, depending on which thread you pull on – is no easy task, particularly when […]
Get yourself ready for some J-gaze/adjacent goodness as I head to Japan tomorrow for a two week jaunt across Tokyo and Osaka. In lieu of any sort of in-depth content, I’ll just stretch the equivalent of a playlist out over the duration, starting with one the godheads of the scene, Kinoko Teikoku. This tune, fitting […]
Following up from last month’s post bemoaning (again) my missing Kinoko Teikoku’s local shows back in 2014, a reader did me the favour/dagger twist of feeding me a video from the Rivoli show that I hadn’t included with the band nearly creating a musical singularity between 2005 me and 2024 me, covering The Radio Dept’s […]
Is there a German word for “regrets for missing out on something that you had no idea existed at the time”? Or a Japanese one? Welcome to peak FOMO, a decade-plus ago edition. Specifically, Japanese indie rock legends Kinoko Teikoku and their two Toronto gigs way way way back in May 2014, presented by Next […]
Besides the fact that they’re one of the more internationally beloved and missed Japanese indie rock bans of the last while, any discussion around Kinoko Teikoku inevitably centers around their shift from Japanese indie UK.Project/Daizawa to global major EMI with 2015’s 猫とアレルギー (Nekoto Allergie), and the inevitable softening/broadening of their sound from their original shoegazey […]
As mentioned before, the conventional wisdom around Tokyo’s Kinoko Teikoku is their first two records were the ‘gazey ones, and after that they went more conventional indie rock or broadened their sonic palette, depending on how you want to look at it. But whatever your perspective, their later albums still had some great material – […]
I have no idea what WordPress or various socials will do with the title of this post. I’m curious. Kinoko Teikoku is one of the acts that is revered in the world of Japanese shoegaze, though that’s usually qualified by the fact that while they started out in that genre in their early releases, they […]
