One of my favorite bands to ever come out of Japan is Limited Express (Has Gone?). Since 1998, they have been churning out consistently great stuff. In December of 2020, they quietly put out their new mini-album called The Sound of Silence. Okay, it wasn’t done quietly at all. They released a brilliant 25-minute live concert event where they played the entire EP in a tricked-out art gallery while a cameraman ran around trying to keep up with the action. You can tell the band put A LOT of work into rehearsing for this performance and I find it impossible not to get swept up in the show. But wait, what the heck does this band even sound like? Well, I suppose the music they play is punk rock but the songs are just so spastic and odd that I don’t quite know how to describe it. There’s lot of screaming, a blaring saxophone, brilliant guitar playing, and a pummeling rhythm section that rarely lets up. Limited Express (Has Gone?) are just the right amount of relentless energy and quirky originality that I crave.
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