There’s nothing greater than finding a piece of music that feels so original and innovating that you just can’t stop listening to it, like that feeling you get when you find a type of sweet or chocolate you remember from your youth in an old rundown sweet shop on the shore of some horrible British seaside destination. However sometimes you can find fondness in the simplest of music styles. I for one find it all most impossible to not shout a long to ‘Danger Zone’ by Kenny Loggins or stop my legs from wanting to dance when I hear some perfectly crafted pop song originally designed to appeal to kids at a primary school disco. It’s this same feeling that can sometimes mask otherwise insignificant music. The best example of this is when you find something that represents the ‘sound’ or culture of a country. Bands like Beirut and Hawk and a Hacksaw do this wonderfully well, taking Balkan sounds and incorporating them into ‘rock’ songs and creating something both arty and enjoyable. Last year we also saw Yelle create what could have been another horrible euro-dance album, but avoided the cliché by mixing perfectly, elements of this torrid genre with modern beats and styles. Here we have something similar, Indie music but with an Asian twist. Both of these Groups hail from Hong Kong, and to be honest its pretty hard to differentiate one from the other. They are though, both well worth checking out if your into this sort of inter cultural exchange. Sounding like an Asian Belle And Sebastian there’s certainly a lot to fall in love with about both these bands. Twee indie pop that’s hard to hate, but definitely not something to boast about listening to if you’re out to impress
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