This song feels like a VHS tape, despite it being released in 2012. Honestly, mixing the introspective lyrics and guitar vocabulary of emo with the dense sound of shoegaze sounds like an obvious choice, like French fries and ice cream, so I'm surprised it took until these guys to really try it out.
Just finished with a scholarship interview. Lowkey think I nailed it, but watch it be revealed that some minor thing I said had irrevocably fucked up my candidacy.
To me, this is the essence of Asian Kung-Fu Generation. It's that feeling of youth that so many other J-rock bands try to capture, but none quite as strongly as AKG. It's a shame that it hasn't been used in an anime yet, but here's hoping Bocchi season 2 picks it up
The college kids who invented modern emo are now the divorced dads giving you sterile divorced dad indie rock.
This track is not that though, IMO. The main riff is as addicting as Never Meant's. Singer Mike Kinsella's aging vocals give just the right amount of lostness to elevate this song into one of the best from this band of sad dads.
Radiohead are my favorite band, weird politics aside. And as much as In Rainbows is my favorite album of theirs, I do wish we got this version of Videotape as the closer instead.
Whereas the album version was skeletal, mournful, and resigned, this version of Videotape almost sounds celebratory or blissful. It's a dignified acceptance of one's death.

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