Wow, I love the warbling tangibility of Misery is Butterfly. It reminds me of Portishead, Noe Venable, or the Cranes, and their website has oodles of style. I just hope they don’t have to drug up poor Kazu for every photo shoot to prove trendiness. The one of her dog peering through the plane window is awesome. I’ve got to find more of both to listen to.

Mikazuki is entrancing and deliciously deranged. I wish I could make out more of the lyrics, but I couldn’t find any online. Do you have any snippets from the chorus?

I can finally confess my being a fan of My Little Lover to someone who can understand! Admittedly it’s more less pretentious and a bit more candy superficial, but still, when I found them in ’99 I decided many things Japanese were just going to be 90 times cooler than local.

Thanks to youtube I can list a few, the basic Sora no shite de:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6riiMu9ZDY

They have a knack for eliciting a fairly hilarious freewheeling, 60′s-bright-color-clean surround-shopping sound as in My Painting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsw3mMvBExo

and Man and Woman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdUklXa0zLU

I will never understand consumerism so well!
Stardust, high color 90′s visuals with a jaded dirge that has some nice moments, though it’s more for the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZENO7KgbgKg

My favorite is the embarrassingly poppy Destiny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyJ8k7xeUPI
(What’s with the weird, old, and possibly remotely adorable white guy?!? Bah, I only just saw it as a video, the ancient green-screen Komputer is a lot more interesting.) Aishiteru-shiteru-shiteru….

Ah, maybe the old guy is Hal 9k’s adorable creator in an alternate aishiteru reality?

I miss 90′s colors. Your vids are so recent and hip they hardly have color in them, while MLL’s fare is obviously from a bygone era where turned the computer-color processing dial the other way– to enhance everything towards MORE TEAL.