Music Recommendation - haku. (ハク。)
I'm not a very discerning music listener, and honestly I can go months without listening to music. I'm trying to remedy this, get back into music in a way that works with my never-commuting lifestyle, and my plan with this format is to just catalogue and share some of the music that keeps me going on it.
I first heard haku. from one of mrfb's Music Friday posts, halfway through my background listening there's this very fun sounding Japanese song that grabbed my attention.
This is haku.'s cover of a song by Mono No Aware, a collection of japanese tongue twisters, and it rules. Off the back of this I check out both bands, and then spend the next week or so just listening to haku. and remembering what it was like to be getting into music as a teenager.
Their back catalogue is just full of jangly guitar's, fun vocals, and killer melodies. I really have nothing but praise for it - it first put me in mind of The Pillows, a band I listened to a ton after watching FLCL, but I also get a strong sense of The Smiths off it. I'm not sure exactly where from though, might be the little non-melody bridges they throw into some songs.
Anyway, here's a small collection of my favourites from them, though I find their albums very listenable start-to-finish. Enjoy!