Here’s a quick one for you. I have one major beef with instrumental indie and prog rock bands. They take forever to get where they are going. Just because you don’t have words doesn’t mean all of you songs have to be over 10 minutes long. You can write a three minute song with normal chord progressions and no one will think less of you. In fact, if you name your band Té, give your first full length album a title like If That is What is Being Thought, Liberated Sound Talks the Depth of "Musical" World, don't sing at all over glorious prop rock spooned out in short, sweet doses, you might have scored a record deal and became huge in Japan with out even knowing it. Which is pretty much what happened.
I highly recommend this record, not just on musical merit, but reading the song titles is like wading through bad poetry in a high school English class (See all the song titles after the jump). Fun stuff. Té blasts through 12 songs of head-bobbing prog rock full of beautiful melodies and some signature J-Pop. The longest song tops out at a svelte 6:09, making them a pure pleasure to listen to without having to sit through three minutes of feedback before the song actually begins.
Also, check out Té's web site, it features some hilariously poor English. And people (mainly a whiney Wookie) say we need a copy editor here at eLarceny. Ha!
On the flip side - not withstanding my inability to comprehend, let alone use, my native tongue and the basis of my college degree - if I were to write this stuff in Japanese it would probably be just as hilariously poor. And then the guy over an Hanzi Smatter would surely come beat me down.
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Buy: Online Here
Stuff to Sample: From Té's full length debut, That is What is Being Thought, Liberated Sound Talks the Depth of "Musical" World, "Anxiety Is Not About The Issue. It Is Actually About People's 'Mind' Related To The Issue That They Are Afraid Of" and "A Real 'Imitation' Is The Imitation That Let People See Ridiculousness Of Boring Original One"
If That is What is Being Thought, Liberated Sound Talks the Depth of "Musical" World.
1. It Must Be Called "Intelligence" If People Stop When They Realize They Are Not Able To Become What They Are Wishing to Be.
2. A Thought Would Never Let People "Watch" What They Choose. Instead, It Let Them See What They Hope To See.
3. Anxiety Is Not About The Issue. It Is Actually About People's "Mind" Related To The Issue That They Are Afraid Of.
4. Avarice Would Speak With Every Word, It "Acts" Every Part And It Even Pretends To Be Not Avaricious.
5. A Real "Imitation" Is The Imitation That Let People See Ridiculousness Of Boring Original One.
6. It Is Supposed To Be "Ordinary" That Imagination Moves Much Faster And More Freely Than Bright Light In The Darkness.
7. "Existence" Of Eloquence Is Only In A Look Of People's Face That Remain Silence, And It Even Beats Any Kind Of Words.
8. Anger Kills All The Idiots, And Envy Would Torture Foolish People And All The "Instants" Being Involved.
9. We Promise With A View To Hope, But The Reason To "Accomplish" What We Promised Would Be Fear.
10. A Reality That People Are Living In This World Is A Lot "More" Complicated Than Fantasy-Land That They Imagine.
11. Courtesy Is Considered As A "Farce" If There Are No Honesty And Reality.
12. Break The "Heart" To What Is Actually Being Told Instead Of Asking Who Said That.
I was once a lead singer in an instrumental band.