One lump or ten?
One of our favorite digital pastimes here at MFR has to be Katamari. Something about the game makes us happy. Makes our wives and girlfriends happy. Makes everyone happy. One of the best things about the series are the soundtracks, which take cute, eclectic emotions and bottle them into spiffy little jams that you feel happy rolling a little sticky soul ball around to. With the next Katamari installment imminent, I find my musical tastes wandering back in the direction of such musics.
Enter Misha. They've already earned "Band to Watch" status on the 'Gum, and it's perfect music for a pre-Katamari August such as this. The group is John Chao and Ashley Yao, who met in Taiwan, then again in NYC, and began dating (I dig the make-beautiful-music-together stories, after all), working full time not making musics, but instead as consultants and pro models, respectively. But the music found time, and their full length release, Teardrop Sweetheart, is a brilliant little gem of a CD (and it's out! You can purchase it here
Seriously, the summer is almost over. Invite yourself over to whoever has the best porch among your friends, put this on the boombox, sit in the flimsy plastic Adirondack chairs and don't get up until you've finished the CD or the bottle of wine. September is next week, so enjoy it all while it lasts.