Japancakes - The Sleepy Strange va There's a previously unreleased track

There's a previously unreleased track included (Untitled) as well as radically different versions of Marbella – a track Munk originally wrote with Robin Guthrie – and Rise (a Syntaks track)

whose lovingly stroked guitar chords echo and shimmer

What a way to enter the indie-pop sweepstakes

At times his songs evoke the musings of Wire

Carroll never totally relinquished the surf scene

Japancakes - The Sleepy Strange va There's a previously unreleased trackBuilding on the accessible experimentation on If I Could See Dallas and the Down the Elements EP, Japancakes' aptly named second album, The Sleepy Strange, is both dreamy and earthy, complex and immediate, and challenging and soothing. Though their modus operandi repeating melodic phrases for hours at a time to highlight the subtle shifts in tone and rhythm remains the same, The Sleepy Strange is the band's most cohesive work to date, yet it keeps all