Sometimes when we have to write these various pieces, it does cause us headaches.

Not because we have stupidly high standards and regard the majority of music as rubbish. We don’t think that for a second; if our opinion mattered we’d be on some sort of smug music panel show or furiously writing for the village’s local newsletter.

What we hate is finding artists who are so incredibly good and then having to basically fill in lots of words around them. In a perfect world, this review would just say ‘Earth Lay For Fiction are ruddy marvellous and you should all go and listen to them’. But you’d probably like to know what they sound like. It would be helpful, after all.

Not that it should matter, but Earth Lay For Fiction are Japanese. We mention their nationality because we’ve found in the past that the major of bands who comes from that region are actually a bit mental. Casting our minds back to folk like DJ Scotch Egg and Melt Banana gives us a credible theory to argue with. But this time it isn’t manic sounds coming towards you at 100mph. Instead, it’s something calmer.

We find ourselves with some glorious post rock all the way from Osaka. This is where we have to be all clever and write lots of descriptive words about them. But if you like anyone remotely like Explosions In The Sky or The Album Leaf, then you’ll like this band. Simple as that, really.

The chord structures may sound simple and basic, but they chime effortlessly throughout songs and really do sound like things of beauty as they wrap around your ears. If we were egotistical people, that’s the quote we’d want to see appearing from ourselves on their album cover.

Sadly, the chances of Earth Lay From Fiction releasing music you can physically hold or download off the internet are slim. They aren’t connected to a record label yet. The trend for people to be picked up for simply having a MySpace profile and a nicely designed page is gone. Now you actually need the songs to go alongside it.

Earth Lay From Fiction have songs that people would listen to. Their music wouldn’t have commentators accusing them of ripping off other artists. Instead, this Japanese band are doing wonderful things on their own.

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