New Music: Kanako and The Numb Skulls: Folk Punk
Kanako and the Numb Skulls write music that alerts and reminds me to why mp3 blogging is a wonderful source of not only new pop music, but also a great new platform for the obscure Afro-Japanese Folk Punk. You aint gonna get ahead of the crowd on this, no hipster points. It’s just really good music that I’ve given some time to, and want to share.
The track, vikings something something sounds good at lots of time of the day and it survives the indie - ipod killer (I hate a lot of indie when I listen to it on my ipod - when it sounds good on it - I know for sure it’s a good track). But er I suppose this isn’t indie as many of you may understand it also it’s not gimmicky - it’s just musicians having fun with pop and folk and accented vocals + instruments. A track that demands you click play and test the water… it had me in an instant simply because it is different, multicultural and twee punk. I think, though that sentence may be editted out when I wake up tomorrow with a little more knowledge.
We’re incredibly flattered by Mike Smith’s post!
ALL our songs have something a little different. He’s spot on when he says its not indie (I find all this suffer-for-your-art indie a total drag) and he’s dead right to say we’re a band of musicians having fun. We’re so glad that comes across.
Thanks for reading
Numb Skull Andy