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Casting a line of exoticism into a pool of vibratos, David Best, Matt Hainsby, Steve Lewis and Lee Adams of Fujiya & Miyagi are at it again. It is nearly sinful to cover Fujiya & Miyagi releases more than an hour past release, but embarrassing not to at all. Soundwaves are pulsating through music tunnels over their latest Read the full story
In total, Fujiya & Miyagi don’t really sound like anything. Instead, they sound like everything condensed into perfectly arranged three minute chunks of infectious pop music, a strange hybrid of James Brown on Valium and Wire gone pop. Or maybe Serge Gainsbourg with a PhD in electronics backed by David Byrne’s Eno-produced scratchy guitar mixed by MF Doom. It’s Darwinism gone mad.
