From Echoes | Part of the Echo Location: Soundings for New Music series | 00:03:30

From Athens, Georgia, Japancakes mixes electric guitar with pedal steel guitar, classical strings with synthesizers and emerges with a sound that's got country airs strung out in classical refrains with a touch of quirk.
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Echo Location is a 3 1/2 minute weekly feature an artist, event, album or trend in new music. Radio producer and music critic John Diliberto has had a long and deep relationship with new music and each week he shares the excitement of new discoveries with Ech...
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aired on WXPN Philadelphia April 23, 2008
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Posted on May 07, 2008 at 02:14 PM | Permalink
Review of Japancakes: Ambient Chamber Country
Awesome. Japancakes' name had been familiar to me, but the band's music was not. As of now, count me a fan. The tone of the piece is informed but not esoteric, taking what could be a little alienating (country-shoegazer rock music) and making it sound palatable, and mostly, beautiful. I was especially excited to hear that the band has made an exacting rendition of the album Loveless, by My Bloody Valentine--one of my all-time favorites. The group's monumental song "Only Shallow" is here presented in an intimate version, on what sounds like a slide guitar. That's why covers exist: to show new depth in old favorites. Good stuff!