| Japanther / Rock'n'roll Ice Cream |
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| Album: | Rock'n'roll Ice Cream | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Japanther | Added: | 04/2010 | |
| Label: | Menlo Park Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-05-09 | Pull Date: | 2010-07-11 |
| Week Ending: | 11 Jul | 20 Jun | 13 Jun | 6 Jun | 30 May | 23 May | 16 May |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 28, 2022: | Down in the Basement Spread So Thin | 4. | Oct 12, 2013: | Music Casserole $100 Dollar Remix | |
| 2. | Nov 19, 2016: | Munch Time Spread So Thin | 5. | Jul 11, 2012: | Midnight Radio What The Fuck Is The Internet | |
| 3. | May 05, 2016: | Munch Time Spread So Thin | 6. | Mar 10, 2012: | I Wanna See Results Spread So Thin |
| Album Review |
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| Trent Kay Reviewed 2010-05-01 | ||
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Lo-fi garage / art punk, grainy vocals and more-fuzzy-than-noisy guitars and a silly/serious skaterboy sensibility. This is the music you wish you could have made with your next-door neighbours in, like, seventh grade. Even the vocals are... nasal and shouted. Reminds me of Bearsuit and Math the Band and other fun-as-fuck bands you’ve never heard of. Japanther are Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly -- whatever, there are totally chick vocals on this record (it’s Anita Sparrows of the Soviettes), and there’s all sorts of arty co-op collab going on, from the random digi samples to the strained “city at night” poetry spoken over and under. How the hell these kids found each other at the rhymes-with-brat Institute is probably none of my business either. (Read: hipsters of the world...) Though: What hey, they actually do use telephones as microphones. I have a witness. try: 7, 1/10, 5, 3 FCC: 8, 9 **1. pure fun pop-punk. dueling boy/girl vocals. drums + fuzz guitar + what sounds like a toy keyboard. most definitely about moping over a girl. 2. bookended ridiculous voice-overs that belong in a gregg araki movie. in the middle: fast southern-culture-on-the-skids type vocal stylings. quick-hit drums and noise guitar. “i think you think we’re cool”. *3. poppy, fuzzy, beach boys on blow ditty about girls, corporate america, and surfing. lots of ‘ahh’s. held-note chorus: “still alii-iii-iii-iii-iiive”. random jazzy outro. okay, kids. 4. begins & ends with digi samples. straight-ahead atonal verses with rushed lyric runs. *5. fuzzy synth pop + airy shoegaze vocals. totally boppy & cool. i love when the sound randomly drops in and out. 6. starts with a pushy syncopated beat & spoken samples from... police academy 5?! at :45, cuts to a lazy sing-songy high school crush song. piano is involved. **7. fucking genius! happy boppy fast-paced goodness. singalong chorus that sounds like splitskies between a 60s girl beach band and... j-pop?! vamps “what do what do i what do what do i do with you?” not like i first heard this on the left end or anything. as if. 8. FCC “shit” / “fuck” deep vocal groove, bitty synth bass, sparse instrumentation... and then it picks up and breaks open. overarch poetry near the end. 9. FCC “fuck” starts with a spoken sample. harder-edge deep grain fast punk and rapid vocals. “we don’t give a fuck what you write on the internet!” too bad about the FCC, this rocks. *10. supa-stripped down acoustic female-vox version of the first track. starts soft/sweet, gets a tinge louder and snarly. high school heartbreak to the teeth. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | She's The One | 6. | Not At War | |||
| 2. | L.A. Ura Mystery | 7. | Spread So Thin | |||
| 3. | Surfin' Coffin | 8. | Get Me Home | |||
| 4. | Life Is Strange | 9. | What The Fuck Is The Internet | |||
| 5. | $100 Dollar Remix | 10. | Alone In The Basement |