I recently watched Fooly Cooly and really enjoyed the music. Could you guys recommend some bands similar to the Pillows, or some good albums that are similar?
>inb4 just jewgle 'alternative rock bands' and find something you like
I recently watched Fooly Cooly and really enjoyed the music. Could you guys recommend some bands similar to the Pillows...
Owen Walker
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Nathan Thompson
Simeone in a share thread recently posted an album by a Japanese band called polkadot stingray. I would check that one out (I liked it)
Sebastian Russell
Sorry about shit typing. I can't into mobile
Ian Davis
Unbeltipo, Sajjanu, Ruins, Korekyojinn, the list goes on...
Jose Ramirez
Could you recommend some w e s t e r n bands?
Jaxon Wilson
I'd be interested in this as well to me their sound is so quintessentially j-rock. I don't know if I've heard many western bands in that style even though it's not anything particularly complex.
Austin Davis
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Wyatt Baker
Bygones, Planets, Deerhoof, You Slut!, the list goes on...
Nathaniel Gonzalez
The Strokes
Luke Rogers
Honestly, the pillows is to Japan what Big Star is to the west. Power pop band that spawns a sizeable part of the alternative rock scene.
So, yeah, listen to Big Star. That's a good one. Cheap Trick, too.
Anyhow; Polkadot Stingray is a great band but not what you're looking for, I assume.
Adrian Price
Whatever this Chinese shit is.
Dylan Taylor
can we just turn this either bait/spoonfeeding thread into a kick ass nip music recommendations and reviews thread instead
Justin Baker
Hopefully. Been listening to tricot a lot lately, never thought math pop rock sung by japanese girls could be a thing.
Also shoutouts to She Her Her Hers because their use of shoegaze to add dynamics is actually brilliant.
Grayson Reyes
Pixies. They shaped those guys' sound. One of the songs in that anime is literally just 'Where is My Mind'
Nolan Thompson
Fairly sure that in Happy Bivouac one of the song ends with them singing "Here Comes Your Man", and that leads into a
song called "Kim Deal" after the Pixies bassist.
Elijah Morales
Yup. The Pixies influence on The Pillows is super obvious
Xavier Anderson
OP here, do what you like, ive gotten a load of recommendations so spam gay nip shit all you like.
Nolan Long
I sense a big Big Star influence, honestly. Pixies is the obvious one, though. I kinda see them as a janglier, less agressive, more existential Nirvana; especially the lyrics, which can get quite dark at times (Swanky Street and Suicide Driving are big examples, but Last Dinosaur and Another Morning have a huge melancholy).
Nicholas Bell
Polkadot Stingray is a great choice. I'm going to repost two links from the Sup Forums archive.
Jackson Cruz
Polkadot Stingray- Dai Seigi EP
>Alternative rock, Power Pop, Japanese, A hell of a lot of fun, Probably my EP of the year thus far
Link: mega.nz
Sample: youtube.com
Ian Jackson
Polkadot Stingray- Honenuki EP
>Polkadot Stingray's first EP, Japanese
Link: mega.nz
Sample: youtube.com
Thomas Cook
Really hyped for what they'll come up with, they have a wide musical "vocabulary" so to speak (one of the songs there opens up with a noise section) and they're great at writing poppy hooks and earwormy licks while being surprisingly proficient at their instruments (or, in Shizuku's case, singing). Also Shizuku a cute.
Chase Reyes
Why does it seem like Japan has a lot more good female fronted bands than the west does
Camden Powell
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs my dude.
Jonathan Morris
Great band, but honestly I wouldn't quite reccomend it to someone who's just getting into Japanese rock through the pillows.
Jeremiah Perez
kinoko teikoku
Easton Watson
I genuinely don't know, though most of the Japanese bands I listen to have at least one girl playing, exceptions being things like She Her Her Hers, Mouse on the Keys and Shinki Chen.
Wyatt Wright
Yeah it is a bit noisier, but I held back from just saying Boris haha. I thought it couldn't hurt as a recc, especially if user checks out some or all of the previously mentioned bands first.
Grayson Powell
This one wasn't in the archive. I'm pretty sure it is their first recording, before Honenuki EP.
Polkadot Stingray - In Full Color EP
Link: mega.nz
Sample: youtube.com
Adam Smith
Oh good Lord.
Yeah, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs is great if you like post-hardcore, noise rock or alternative shoegaze. Fun band, too. Speaking of those - Luminous Orange, great shoegazey band.
Levi Robinson
Yeah, even bands like Maximum the Hormone and Boris famously have female members. Plus you have stuff like Babymetal. In a totally non SJW way it's interesting to see how their is greater female representation over there in more than one way.
Gavin Jones
Number Girl if you're fine with a more punkier sound. They were also inspired by Pixies, same band that The Pillows took inspiration from as mentioned above in the thread.
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Joseph White
the pillows are basically The Jam + Pixies but Japanese
Ethan Robinson
Oh yeah? I'll give them a listen, thanks for the recc.
Wyatt Edwards
Yeah, definitely. They also manage to avoid the "female bassist" issue of the girl in the band being borderline token representation, which is surprising. Also their whole anti-idol culture is just bizarre and wonderful and deserves a search.
Nathan Lee
Tricot is similar to Mass of the Fermenting Dregs. Neither of these groups are that similar to the Pillows, but they are both very good.
>Math-rock trio
Sample: youtube.com
Daniel Sanchez
I fucking love tricot, man. Hits all the sweet spots. Have you given jizue a listen?
Blake Perez
The club scene in Japan plays a pretty big role in stabilizing the genre.
American bands go from nothing to playing festival stages, where simpler songs tend to go over better with big crowds. Female frontwomen in American bands are stuck with the responsibility of connecting to the audience, often at the experience of their musicality. If they intentionally avoid that role, the band tends to veer more into art music. (St. Vincent comes to mind)
One Western band that I really like that happens to have a female member is the Rural Alberta Advantage. Again, not that similar to the Pillows, but oh well.
>Jeff Mangum-ish vocals, but poppier songs. One of my favorite drummers of any band.
Sample: youtube.com
Link: mega.nz
Is this them?: youtube.com
Sounds pretty good. I'll need to look into them.
Connor Richardson
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