Artist: Toe
Song: Everything Means Nothing
From album: The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety
Genre: Instrumental Subsequent Rock
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I should have posted Toe a long time ago; they have stood out as one of the best Japanese instrumental bands I’ve heard since I started looking. They have an unfading talent for constructing glittering twilight braids of melody that twinkle and flow in swaying coils.

I’ve also been pleasantly surprised by their website, and most especially by the photography section which strikes me as containing some of the absolute finest band photography I’ve seen anywhere. Foremost among these are the photos by Yoshiharu Ota which are worth a post in themselves. The photo-viewer on Toe’s homepage is big and beautiful, the photos saturated with color and movement; and it has a nice elegant interface too, whose concept I might appropriate and adapt for myself at some point.

So, I’m sortof back now, and I’ve got this nifty new video player with me. It has been in the works for a while, being built up from scratch, and will probably be refined a little more before it’s fully implemented. Please feel free to mess with it, try to break it, give me feedback, and let me know if it does anything odd. It fits the scheme more, and it’s now extra-simple to plug stuff into so it’ll be easier to do videos in the future.

I realized recently that I have been doing this for over a year now and have made an average of around 1.3 posts per week. It’s neither here nor there, but I think I’ll try to increase that to at least 2 per week on average in the coming year, starting now.

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