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Artist: Kanda

Date Released: 2005

Label: Bop Tart

Produced By: Kanda

Tracklisting:

  1. Arctic
  2. They'll Need Cocaine
  3. List
  4. Where Do They?
  5. Drink For Three
  6. Filler
  7. Ronnie Stays In That Basement
  8. White Pants
  9. Face It
  10. Frankie
  11. One Place

Review[]

Full disclosure: I know the guy who runs Kanda's label, Bop Tart. In fact, that's how I found out about them; he gave me a copy of their CD and said "Here, I think you'll really like this". At the time, I didn't know him well at all (we'd met maybe a week earlier, and I'd just given him a copy of the first mix CD), so I was a little bit leery (I used to be in college radio, so I know how often "Hey, I think you'll like this" tends to actually mean "Here's something my band recorded on a boombox! It's all songs about how girls don't like me! Also, I drank a bunch of Draino before singing to make sure my voice sounded right!"), but I put it in that morning and OH MY GOD IT WAS GOOD. And I don't even mean that in a "Oh, I was expecting something horrible, and I got something OK!" way—I mean that in the same way that if I had bought this album from a record store, I would have been just as into it. I keep trying to turn other people on to this record. It's EXCELLENT electropop—very delicate sounding, very fragile, but so very, very good. Such a great sound on this album. And, hey, how can you go wrong with an album title (and a track title from their previous record!) that references Annie Hall? I love this record—if there's a problem with it, it's that it's too short. And, as problems go, that's a pretty good one. - Rev. Syung Myung Me

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