MySpace Trawl – The Retail Sectors
MySpace Trawl is one of the few music features not about sucking corporate cock and promoting certain bands because we’re told to.
This is one of the rare features where we sift through all the crap on the internet to bring you the best stuff we can find. For the year and a bit we’ve been doing this feature, we’ve found bands that push the boundaries or just generally produce interesting noises that makes us happy.
This week we are going to keep it pure and simple. If you read last week's feature, you know were going crazy for post rock. All sorts of stuff is coming from across the world from England to Canada. We hadn’t found anything from the crazy world of Japan until now, but this has changed – The Retail Sectors have shown this. Simply indescribable, the solo artist who makes this stuff – Kentaro Togawa – makes us want to cry with the sheer beauty and depth of his work. Just listen to Riverside Sunshade – it’ll all become clear.
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If you’re looking for some earth-shatteringly beautiful post rock from the fair isle of Japan, you really need to discover Mono. Not the crap UK Mono that had one song crop up in some lame Gwyneth Paltrow movie, experiencing approximately 0.5 seconds of notoriety before disappearing into obscurity – no, the Mono of Takaakira Goto and company. I’d recommend an album but to be frank you should just go out and buy them all. Right now.