Limited Express (has gone?): purifying fierceness
What it is with Japanese indie bands: there’s still a fierceness there that seems to have disappeared completely from the American and European indie scene.
Take, for example, Limited Express (has gone?). Been around for quite a while now (founded in 2003, so almost a decade and a half), but they still go at it like wild animals.
Their new album All Ages is the perfect antidote to the frustrations of seeing the Nazi’s take over virtually everywhere in the free world. Something like a ritual purification.
Singer Yukari screams like a banshee and moves about the stage like a young Iggy Pop. The rest of the band is like a thunderstorm, but knows how to handle their instruments. This is not just channeled anger; the songs have structure and the rhythms are intricate.
Easily one of the best records brought out this year, as far as I am concerned. (PB)
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