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(via Moe Meguro)

I appreciate any Bandcamp bio that simply states “Crosby, Stills & Nash meets Cap’n Jazz,” yetMoe Meguro go the extra mile and actually pull off the description. The three band members are based around the world and each musician brings part of their home to the blend. My guess: Joseph “Jojo” Brandel, from Yokohama, Japan, brings the math-rock emo riffs; Bernie Gelman, from Austin, TX, brings the hazy drive; and Logan Bean, from California, brings the sunny pop harmonies. Extra points to the band for covering ‘Walls And Bridges’-era John Lennon with “#9 Dream.”

From the band:

“With band members scattered over six thousand miles apart across two continents and a name borrowed from the Japanese Olympic curling champion, Moe Meguro is a melting pot of disparate styles. The 3-piece band consisting of Joseph Brandel and Bernie Gelman on guitars and Logan Bean on drums (with all three members covering vocal duty) convenes once or twice a year to write, rehearse, and record music back on their home turf in the Bay Area, California. Over that short span of time, the band collaborates on crafting intricate, sonically lush music drawing from Beatles-tinged power pop laced with harmonies to hazy shoegaze and a bit of math rock.”

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(via tfvsjs)

The music video for tfvsjs‘ “Battle from the bottom” is nuts. The latest single from the Hong Kong instrumental math-rock five-piece gets the cinematic treatment as two women talk, laugh, and cry in red and blue rooms. They fall in and out of love as math rock tears them apart. A mime shows up. Everyone plays cards. Everyone goes home alone.

Like most math rock I listen to (I don’t listen to a lot), I try not to get caught up trying to figure out the meaning of the music and just enjoy feeling smart and complex as glitchy guitar riffs bounce off militant drums. I do enjoy tfvsjs a lot for their Canton twist on math rock, and I hope they keep making music for a long time.

Zoi is out now on Bandcamp via White Noise Records.

Thanks Unite Asia for the first listen.

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