A hopeless and happy youth
I’ve always wondered why Supercar called it quits just as their music was on the very cusp of greatness, but I think I get it now. Their sound is so deeply intertwined with their youthful introspection that simply by growing old, their reason to exist would erode away and lose meaning. I’m listening to them a lot at the moment and their song Warning Bell (Last Live version, video above) sounds like a band desperate to resist that inevitable destiny, if just for a few more minutes, and savour their last, bittersweet taste of a hopeless and happy youth.
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I’ve always wondered why, just as they were breaking into the West, the Mad Capsule Markets amicably wrapped things up and got on with their own projects. A shame that. But then, they’d been going for years so for listeners in their homeland they weren’t a ‘new’ band at all.
Makes you wonder what the Pillows will do in the future, since their lo-fi garage punk sound might end up mellowing out and slowing down…which reminds me, I ought to check out their latest record.
I’m loving that Supercar vid BTW - the long intro has a God is an Astronaut/Mogwai vibe to it but when the vocals kick in…wow. There’s this dreampop kind of vibe that doesn’t sound quite like anything I’ve heard before. Another band to hunt down on last.fm I guess!
Sounds a lot like Explosions in the Sky, from like 2 seconds of listening. I haven’t been steeped in [post]rock for quite some time but I really digged the few songs I heard, and this sounds great so far.
I hope you guys get into Supercar as much as I have, because I find their music really inspirational and worthy of anyones playlist, regardless of whether you’re a “Japanophile” or not. Another video below, this one including random American presenter who makes embarrassing jokes about apples:
I love the balance of the male/female vocals, the aesthetic and the sound of Supercar is notably asexual, yet reaches far deeper into emotion than the average, superficial rock band.
I-IV-vi-V never gets old, and yeah, I did really enjoy the mixture of guy/girl vocals. That may have been the song’s strongest point, at least for me.
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