Japancakes - Down the Elements - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2025 Re-press. Athens, GA's experimental, instrumental, Americana group, Japancakes cover My Bloody Valentine's classic Loveless record from start to finish with pedal steel and cello in place of vocal and lead melodies - and without any distortion. MBV's Loveless (Creation 1991) remains the defining record of the genre and completely unparalleled by any artist since. More soon. Album Tracks 1. Only Shallow 2. Loomer 3. Touched 4. To Here Knows When 5. When You Sleep 6. I Only Said 7. Come in Alone 8. Sometimes 9. Blown a Wish 10. What You Want 11. Soon

Anthens, GA incomparable instrumental pop-Americana quintete Japancakes their newest effort GIVING MACHINES. Featuring 8 new blissed-out, yet solid compositions, plus a cover of the Cocteau Twins tune InchHeave Or Las VegasInch (with pedal steel taking the place of Liz Frazer's vocals). Album Tracks 1. Double Jointed 2. Lalita 3. Heaven or Las Vegas 4. Somersault 5. The Enabler 6. Recovering Austrailia 7. Tracing New Maps 8. In Memory of Honey

On 2001's the Sleepy Strange, Athens, Georgia's Japancakes pioneered the concept of ambient country music. John Neff's pedal steel playing was the instrumental album's strongest 'voice' - an elastic, hypnotic drone rooted in an Americana-styled dreamscape, gently pulling the listener into the band's watercolor imagery. The group's approach remains suitably restrained for Belmondo - after all, it's part of Darla's Bliss-Out ambient series - but they've shifted focus away from the pedal steel. It's still a significant part of the band's sound, but it doesn't carry the record, and it's often so heavily drenched in effects that you'll barely recognize it; even at it's most obvious (during 'Always Stuck with Leaving' and 'Duluth 75'), it sounds woozier than usual. 2002. Album Tracks 1. And Begin 2. Handguns and Firearms 3. Theme for a Film 4. Always Stuck with Leaving 5. Duluth 7.5 6. Another